Abstract:severe." Let us not attempt to condemn by faint praise. The best that can be said for this book is that it is "easy reading" for the intelligent layman. In the opinion of this psychologist, Dr. Adamson has failed in her attempt to give an accurate account of modern psychiatric thought. If her representation of psychiatry is accurate, then much of psychiatry must be labeled as pure nonsense. It is said, for example, that the criminal character is an expression of repressed childish conflicts and that he is the … Show more
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