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The second part of the book is concerned withthe history of the postgraduate training of thegeneral practitioner in psychotherapeutics, promising research, demonstration programs in theUSA and the use of the general practitioner inthe emerging community mental health centers.As might be expected, no pat answers are put forward, but the exploration of the complexities involved is deserving of attention.
For both the general practitioner and the psychiatrist unaware of the other's problems I wouldrecommend this book highly. For those in eitherfield with more expertise and more experiencewith each other's lack of communication, I thinkother greater detailed volumes would be more rewarding.
ROBERT S. PICARD, M.D.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHARMACOLOGY FOR1969.
The Annual Review of Pharmacology for 1969holds the usual high standards of its predecessors.The initial chapter is a historical review of thesub:ect presented in a charming ncstalgic fashionthrough the eyes of J. Harold Burns, Oxford,England. There are only a few chapters that mayseem of interest to psychiatrists: EEG and Human Psychopharmacology (M. Fink); Drugs andEnzyme Induction (R. Kuntzman); BehavioralPharmacology and Toxicology (B. Weiss and V.G. Latiesl, and Self-Administration of and Behavioral Dependence on Drugs (C. R. Schusterand T. Thompson). The "Review of Reviews" (C.Leake) is a good source of reference for manySUbjects of special and general interest. Otr.erchapters are very well presented, as usual, but aremore for the pharmacologist and related specialities. The volume is recommended.
HERMAN C.B. DENBER, M.D., Ph.D.
NEUROLOGY -- A Concise Clinical Textbook. ByJoseph A. Luhan, .'If.D. Baltimore: Williams& Wilkins Co., 1968.. 526 pp.
The author's many years of active work as aneurologist, neuropatholog:st and clinical psychiatrist produced an excellent textbook entitled"Neurology - A Concise Clinical Textbook". Although every textbook of neurology may havecertain definitive features that will appeal to aprofessional student of the subject, this particularbook is uniquely organized and should commenditself as a basic text. As one who used it to pre-·pare for the board examination in psychiatry andneurology, I found it so. The book is basically divided into two parts with a summary at the endof most chapters. Part One is devoted to thebasic consideration of neurology and Part Two
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is devoted to the diseases involVing the nervoussystem. There is an excellent anatomical supplement showing the base of the skull, externalcerebral appearances, coronal sections of the brainand myelin-stained sections of brain stem. Chapter28 should be of particular interest to the internist and is entitled "Neurological manifestationsof some general medical disorders", and discussessuch problems as the neurological manifestationsof diabetes, pituitary disturbances, hypothyroidism, and other medical diseases and their neurological manifestations in great detail. Chapter 29is a chapter especially put forth to clear up themystery of many neurological diseases, syndromesand eponyms. The only defect I could find in thebook are several printing errors which should becorrected with subsequent editions. The simplicityof the writing plus the excellent sophisticatedportrayal of the material on neurology makes thisa well worthwhile book. It is written in the stylereminiscent of many English authors. I can onlyhighly recommend this as an excellent textbookfor the student, the neurologist. the internistand the psychiatrist.
J. DENNIS FREUND, M.D.
BROTHER ANIMAL. The Story of Freud andTausk. By Paul Roazen. New York: Alfred A.
Kno]lff, 1969.
The early history of the psychoanalytic movement as well as a deeper understanding of Freudas a human being is provided by this unusualbook. It reads like a bestseller novel, yet providesfacts which are indeed stranger than fiction.
Tausk, was unquestionably one of Freud'sbrightest and most faithful disciples. Unfortunately, he was trapped by an insoluble contlictwith Freud himself. That Freud was a possiblecogent precipitating cause for Tausk's eventualbizarre suicide provides an unusual glimpse of thefounder of psychoanalysis. The fact that Tausk'sname is practically obliterated in the annals ofpsychoanalysis is indeed interesting and onlysuperseded by Freud's inappropriate lack of reaction to the death to which he was aware thathe had contributed. At least, that is the way theauthor tells it.
Most significant is that Freud and the originalgroup which surrounded him emerge as ordinaryhumans, stripped of the omnipotence and professional neutrality with which their names areusually surrounded. Despite the tragedy of theloss of Tausk, psychoanalysis itself strangelyemerges with an increased vigor and vitality. Thisis best related to the vicissitudes which facedFreud and his courageous followers.
W.D.
Volume XI
