ABSTRACT
Medical psychotherapy, for practical reasons, has to deal with the whole of the psyche. It is bound to come to terms with all those factors, biological as well as social and mental, which have a vital influence on psychic life. People are living in times of great disruption: political passions are aflame, internal upheavals have brought nations to the brink of chaos, and the very foundations of our Weltanschauung are shattered. For this reason the psychologist cannot avoid coming to grips with contemporary history, even if his very soul shrinks from the political uproar, the lying propaganda, and the jarring speeches of the demagogues. This critical state of things has such a tremendous influence on the psychic life of the individual that the doctor must follow its effects with more than usual attention. Book is natural enough that author's thoughts should have been especially concerned with Germany, which has been a problem to me ever since the first World War.
