Psychology and Psychotherapy

FOREWORD

BY

WILLIAM ALDREN TURNER, C.B., M.D.


AN increased general interest in psychology and
psychotherapy has been one of the minor conse-
quences of the war. This is shown to some extent
in the large output during recent months of books
upon the psychogenic origin of neurasthenia and
functional nervous disorder.

In the present work the author has stated the
psychological factors underlying those forms of
nervous reaction, which form the borderline disorders
known as hysteria, neurasthenia, psychasthenia and
the compulsion neuroses. He has not attempted
to give a clinical picture of these reactions, but
more especially his object has been to indicate the
psychological mechanism of their causation and the
principles concerned in their treatment by psycho-
therapy.