ABSTRACT
First published in 1967, the original blurb reads:
This book is intended to give the intelligent lay reader a comprehensive view of the subject of psychotherapy, the treatment of nervous disorders by mental means. These disorders are of increasing importance on account of their wide-spread nature and of the misery they produce.
It describes the development of psychotherapy as employed by the most primitive peoples and races, through animal magnetism and hypnotism to the more modern analytical schools of Freud, Jung and Adler. It sets out in particular to give the positive contributions of these various systems, although this does not preclude criticism of their weaknesses and more dubious theories.
Dr Hadfield has had the widest experience, having treated psychoneurotic disorders for over fifty years, including the war neuroses in the two world wars, both in the Navy and in the Army; and, as Lecturer in the University of London in the subject for over forty years, he has had the opportunity to systematize the knowledge thus obtained. As a result of this experience he has come to conclusions as to the nature, causes and treatment of such disorders differing somewhat from those of the established Schools, and it is these findings which are given in the latter part of the book under the title, ‘Direct Reductive Analysis’.
The book will be useful to all those – teachers and parsons as well as medicals – who have to deal with human beings and their aberrations, and to them it is addressed.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |8 pages
Introductory
part |14 pages
Pre-Scientific
chapter |6 pages
The Primitive Period
chapter |6 pages
Basic Principles of Primitive Psychotherapy
part |8 pages
Early Scientific Period
chapter |3 pages
Animal Magnetism
chapter |3 pages
Mesmerism
part |26 pages
Later Scientific Period
part |34 pages
Hypnotism
chapter |10 pages
What is Hypnosis? *
chapter |8 pages
Effects Produced Under Hypnosis
chapter |4 pages
Auto-Suggestion: Coué
chapter |10 pages
Conditioned Reflexes and Re-Conditioning
part |20 pages
Minor Prophets and Unorthodox Synthesis
chapter |10 pages
Minor Prophets
chapter |8 pages
Unorthodox Systems of Psychotherapy
part |108 pages
Modern Schools: Dynamic Psychology
chapter |10 pages
The Basic Instincts: William McDougall
chapter |8 pages
Psycho-Analysis: Freud
chapter |15 pages
Freud's Mental Mechanisms
chapter |16 pages
Freud's Psychopathology
chapter |10 pages
Freud's Theory of Dreams
chapter |19 pages
Analytical Psychology: Carl Jung
chapter |9 pages
Jung's Dream Interpretation
chapter |6 pages
Jung's Personality Types
chapter |7 pages
The Archetypes
chapter |6 pages
Individual Psychology: Adler
part |142 pages
Direct Reductive Analysis