ABSTRACT
The principle annuls at once all the nonsense that has been talked about "abnormal psychology" and the inapplicability to the "normal" of conclusions derived from the study of it. The so-called "normal" are simply those who have dealt in other ways—by various inner defences such as deadening, inhibiting, and so on—with the deep disharmonies that lie at the centre of human nature. Better descriptive terms are "psychologically minded" and "unpsychologically minded", though they tell us nothing about the significance of the distinction. The attitude was reinforced by the fact that the most vividly striking, and therefore better known, manifestations of the psychoneuroses were the bodily symptoms of hysteria. Psychotherapists, of course, there were, but they seemed to have little interest in the psychology of the conditions they treated. Jung Brill was already a man of international fame in psychiatry.
