ABSTRACT
Modern psychotherapy owes a great deal of its authority to the fact that in psychological respects, patients are more up-to-date than their doctors. Anyhow, for good or ill, psychological medicine became a speciality, and with the formation of this new branch it was no longer necessary to eject psychological cases on to the pavements of Harley Street in a state of suppressed fury and disappointment. In the face of this fresh invasion, the courage of the new medico-psychological specialist failed him; and he began to copy the tactics of his predecessors. Unhappy and incapacitated cases who could not produce a respectable psychological symptom narrowly escaped being called social malingerers. The professional psychoanalyst has reduced these and similar intuitions of naïve psychologists to an orderly systematization. Every child in the first year of life is from the adult psychiatric point of view in a state of panpsychosis always acute and very largely hallucinatory.
