Psychopathology and politicsLasswell, Harold D. (Harold Dwight)
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Psychopathology and politics
Lasswell, Harold D. (Harold Dwight)
Personality and politics; Political science; Psychoanalysis; Psychology, Pathological
Among those who have broken off from Freud, after having been
associated with him, are Stekel, Jung, and Adler. Stekel has published
ten volumes of case histories which are valuable for the beginner
who needs to acquire a sense of what sort of thing the human mind is
capable. The other two are of more theoretical importance. Jung’s
_Psychological Types_ is of the most immediate interest to social
scientists, although his speculations about the “racial unconscious”
are suggestive. Alfred Adler’s standpoint is set out in his _Individual
Psychology_. His circle in Vienna publishes a journal.
An excellent manual is _The Structure and Meaning of Psychoanalysis_
(New York, 1930), by William Healy, Augusta F. Bronner, and Anna Mae
Bowers.
The psychoanalytical movement can be placed in the general perspective
of medical psychology by referring to such a manual as William A.
White’s _Outlines of Psychiatry_ or Bernard Hart’s _Psychopathology_.
There are excellent books in German on medical psychology by Kronfeld,
Birnbaum, Schilder, Kretschmer, and many others. The general movements
in the field can be followed in the _American Journal of Psychiatry_
or the _Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases_, the latter of which
is edited by William A. White and Smith Ely Jelliffe, who also
supervise the well-known series of books, usually translations, called
the “Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series.” Pierre Janet’s
_Psychological Healing_ reviews the general history of psychopathology.
Among the innumerable articles and books which undertake to appraise
the clinical and normal implications of psychoanalysis, the symposium
edited by Hans Prinzhorn may be chosen, _Krisis der Psychoanalyse_
(Leipzig, 1928), Band I (the projected second volume will not appear).
Otto Rank, who has likewise broken with Freud, is publishing a series
of books on the psychoanalytical interview which promises to serve as
a bridge between the general theory and the objective studies of the
interview situation which are in progress in America.
On the special problem of personality and character types, the volume
by A. A. Roback, _The Psychology of Character_, may be instanced as
a very comprehensive guide to the literature. His _A Bibliography on
Personality_ is also available. An acute analysis of typologies was
offered by O. Selz before the German experimental psychologists in
1923. See the following:
Selz, O. “Über die Personlichkeitstypen und die Methoden ihrer
Bestimmung,” _Bericht über den VIII. Kongress für experimentelle
Psychologie_. Jena, 1924.
Klüver, H. “An Analysis of Recent Work on the Problem of
Psychological Types,” _Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases_,
LXII, No. 6 (December, 1925).
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