ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1948 the blurb read: 'Dr Berg has an extraordinary flair for presenting a difficult subject in a most realistic and attractive manner, without sacrifice of scientific essentials.

The patients are made to speak for themselves, with the result that we feel actually present at the analytical sessions, sharing the most intimate details of each individual’s life and feelings. Throughout it is alive with real, vivid clinical material. The reader is led through a panorama of troubled minds and disturbed emotions – from the simplest worries and anxieties, through increasing severity of stresses, to incipient major disorders.

The whole subject of treatment is reviewed and expounded in compendious detail, concluding with a critical review and revolutionary suggestions for the future.

In spite of its novel and entertaining method of exposition, the book covers a surprisingly wide field – the whole field of clinical psychology up to date – and more.' Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

This book is a re-issue originally published in 1948. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

part Section I|52 pages

From Medicine to Mind

chapter Chapter I|14 pages

A Clinical Odyssey

Autobiographical

chapter Chapter II|9 pages

Aetiology

chapter Chapter III|12 pages

Case-Taking

chapter Chapter IV|4 pages

Classification

part Section II|54 pages

The Problem of Anxiety

chapter Chapter VI|5 pages

A Speculation on the Nature of Anxiety

chapter Chapter VII|32 pages

The Problem of Anxiety

chapter Chapter VIII|15 pages

Nervous Breakdown (Anxiety Hysteria)

part Section III|80 pages

The Hysterias

chapter |2 pages

Introductory

chapter Chapter IX|10 pages

Overwork and Hysterical Breakdown

chapter Chapter X|14 pages

Hysteria

chapter Chapter XII|10 pages

Hypochondriacal Illness

chapter Chapter XIII|8 pages

Drug Addiction

Morphine

chapter Chapter XIV|8 pages

Drug Addiction

Alcohol

chapter Chapter XV|11 pages

Hysteria, Anxiety and Fear of Epilepsy

part Section IV|96 pages

Some More Severe Illnesses

chapter Chapter XVI|14 pages

Epilepsy and Hystero-Epilepsy

chapter Chapter XVII|11 pages

Obsessional Neurosis

chapter Chapter XVIII|11 pages

Depression

chapter Chapter XIX|8 pages

Mania

chapter Chapter XX|20 pages

Schizophrenia

chapter Chapter XXI|9 pages

Psychopathic Personalities and Paranoia

chapter Chapter XXII|21 pages

Psychopathology of Schizophrenia and Other Disorders

part Section V|182 pages

Treatment

chapter |3 pages

Introductory

chapter Chapter XXIII|18 pages

Physical Methods of Treatment

Drugs, Etc.

chapter Chapter XXIV|11 pages

Physical Methods of Treatment

Convulsive Therapies, Insulin and Pre-Frontal Leucotomy

chapter Chapter XXV|16 pages

Psychological Methods of Treatment

The Implements of Treatment

chapter Chapter XXVI|11 pages

Psychological Methods of Treatment

Some Individual Methods of Treatment

chapter Chapter XXVII|15 pages

Psychological Methods of Treatment

Psycho-Analysis (General Principles of Technique)

chapter Chapter XXVIII|10 pages

The Instrument of Psycho-Analysis

Technique (contd.)

chapter Chapter XXIX|10 pages

Two Examples of Transference Analysis

chapter Chapter XXX|7 pages

The Terminal Stage

chapter Chapter XXXI|32 pages

A Case Showing Some Implications of Short Treatment

chapter Chapter XXXII|12 pages

The Theoretical Structure of Psycho-Analysis 1

chapter Chapter XXXIII|15 pages

The Mind

Topography and Mechanisms

chapter Chapter XXXIV|21 pages

Criticism and Future Outlook