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Vorlesungen über psychoanalyse
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uncoordinated manner : it strongly urges that taws and regulations should take account of legitimate research needs. This report should be read by anyone who deals
with or is interested in the problems c~,nnected with drug-taking. It is exceptionally good value for money.
La Transmission
Each author is an acknowledged expert m his field and, with one or two notable exceptions, the authors are reporting new experiments and discussing new ideas. Of the 29 papers published in this book, 17 are in French and the refnainder in English. This is an unusual feature of such publications, bat should not pose any serious problem for anybody seriously interested in the topics under discussion. The proceedings of symposia are often disappointing to those who did not attend, In this case, however, the volume can be recommended to all those who are interested in the field of cholinergic transmission.
Cholinergique de I'Excitation
(Cholinergic transmission of the nerve impulse), by M. FARDEAU, M. ISRAEL AND R. MANARANCHk. INSERM, Paris, 50F. This publication is a record of a symposium held in Paris in June, 1972, and organised under the auspices of the Institut National de la Sant6 et de la Recherche Medicale. It comprises 29 contributions, arranged into 3 major sections: Morphology and Cytochemistry of chotinergic synapses (17 papers); Metabolism and Liberation of Ach (7 papers); Physiopathology (5 papers). The range of material presented is extensive and, in many cases, the individual papers are virtually "'mini-reviews".
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J, B. HARRIS
Vorlesunoen iiber Psychoanalyse, by ERaser KRETSCH- between psychology and psychoanabsis, memory M~r~, edited by WOHGAN6 KRFrSCHMEk. 114 and repression, the indications for psychoanalysis pages, 8 diagrams, Hippokrates, Stuttgart, 1973, • and many others which are as important today as they were five decades ago. His belief that psychoD M 22. . analytic theory has meaning only when it can be incorporated into the corpus of knowledge about Professor Ernst Kretschmer's contributions, nohuman behaviour in health and disease forms the tably those relating to constitutional types, have basis of his approach. assured him a permanent place among the founders He must have been a superb lecturer and the of psychiatry. This monograph reveals an aspect of clarity of his own thoughts and expression illushis work of which little has hitherto been known : trates another of his themes, namely that the psychohis appreciation and evaluation of psychoanalytic therapist should use simple and natural language theory and practice. We are indebted to his son, which can be understood and is relevant to the Professor Wolfgang Kretschmer, for having puhuman condition. blished these lectures which, after being little known This is an excellent little book, lucid in thought for some 50 years, reveal a surprising freshness and and clear in style. It will be read with considerable originality of outlook. Indeed Ernst Kretschmer interest by many readers and, although some will was neither protagonist nor antagonist of orthodisagree with some of the views expressed, none dox psychoanalysis and clearly refused to be drawn can deny that it contains much that is original and into the heated and protracted arguments that raged thought-provoking, coming, as it does, from one at the time. Nor was his attitude one of ambivalence of the great men of psychiatry and dealing with a but of critical appraisal and judgement which led subject which still has, in some centres, to find its him to attempt to incorporate those aspects of accepted place in psychiatric practice. psychoanalysis which were both meaningful and valid into clinical practice. [IR'I S('HAPIRA In his lectures, which cover a wide field, he examines a number of topics such as the relationship
~C~)K REVIEWS
uncoordinated manner : it strongly urges that taws and regulations should take account of legitimate research needs. This report should be read by anyone who deals
with or is interested in the problems c~,nnected with drug-taking. It is exceptionally good value for money.
La Transmission
Each author is an acknowledged expert m his field and, with one or two notable exceptions, the authors are reporting new experiments and discussing new ideas. Of the 29 papers published in this book, 17 are in French and the refnainder in English. This is an unusual feature of such publications, bat should not pose any serious problem for anybody seriously interested in the topics under discussion. The proceedings of symposia are often disappointing to those who did not attend, In this case, however, the volume can be recommended to all those who are interested in the field of cholinergic transmission.
Cholinergique de I'Excitation
(Cholinergic transmission of the nerve impulse), by M. FARDEAU, M. ISRAEL AND R. MANARANCHk. INSERM, Paris, 50F. This publication is a record of a symposium held in Paris in June, 1972, and organised under the auspices of the Institut National de la Sant6 et de la Recherche Medicale. It comprises 29 contributions, arranged into 3 major sections: Morphology and Cytochemistry of chotinergic synapses (17 papers); Metabolism and Liberation of Ach (7 papers); Physiopathology (5 papers). The range of material presented is extensive and, in many cases, the individual papers are virtually "'mini-reviews".
.! W ['HOMPSON
J, B. HARRIS
Vorlesunoen iiber Psychoanalyse, by ERaser KRETSCH- between psychology and psychoanabsis, memory M~r~, edited by WOHGAN6 KRFrSCHMEk. 114 and repression, the indications for psychoanalysis pages, 8 diagrams, Hippokrates, Stuttgart, 1973, • and many others which are as important today as they were five decades ago. His belief that psychoD M 22. . analytic theory has meaning only when it can be incorporated into the corpus of knowledge about Professor Ernst Kretschmer's contributions, nohuman behaviour in health and disease forms the tably those relating to constitutional types, have basis of his approach. assured him a permanent place among the founders He must have been a superb lecturer and the of psychiatry. This monograph reveals an aspect of clarity of his own thoughts and expression illushis work of which little has hitherto been known : trates another of his themes, namely that the psychohis appreciation and evaluation of psychoanalytic therapist should use simple and natural language theory and practice. We are indebted to his son, which can be understood and is relevant to the Professor Wolfgang Kretschmer, for having puhuman condition. blished these lectures which, after being little known This is an excellent little book, lucid in thought for some 50 years, reveal a surprising freshness and and clear in style. It will be read with considerable originality of outlook. Indeed Ernst Kretschmer interest by many readers and, although some will was neither protagonist nor antagonist of orthodisagree with some of the views expressed, none dox psychoanalysis and clearly refused to be drawn can deny that it contains much that is original and into the heated and protracted arguments that raged thought-provoking, coming, as it does, from one at the time. Nor was his attitude one of ambivalence of the great men of psychiatry and dealing with a but of critical appraisal and judgement which led subject which still has, in some centres, to find its him to attempt to incorporate those aspects of accepted place in psychiatric practice. psychoanalysis which were both meaningful and valid into clinical practice. [IR'I S('HAPIRA In his lectures, which cover a wide field, he examines a number of topics such as the relationship