Review of Manual of psychiatry and mental hygiene.

Abstract

Freud may be interested in a viewpoint which states "To affirm that something is true which you have no grounds for believing to be true, because you like to think it is true, is actually, we are told, immoral." The final dictum is "What actually causes anyone to believe in God is direct perception of the Divine."The exposition reflects scholarly thoroughness, forceful organization and is offered in a direct style which carries the reader willingly into the difficult search for truth and reality.