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by Eliot Slater, Martin Roth, ed 3; 904 pp, with illus, $22, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co, 1969.

Marshall F. Gilula, MD, Reviewer
Stanford University Palo Alto, Calif

JAMA. 1970;211(9):1548.

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Mayer-Gross (1889-1961) founded the British school of phenomenological psychiatry, which held that "the exact study and precise description of psychic events..." were a "... primary requisite for their understanding." This emphasis on clinically-oriented phenomenology altered the direction of British psychiatry, to stress the importance of interindividual similarities that were frequently blurred by Meyerian psychobiology and its focus on individual uniqueness.

At a time when textbooks of psychiatry have become multiauthored "handbooks," this comprehensive and clinically-oriented treatise offers a unity that may be refreshing to general practitioner and medical student alike. Mayer-Gross's original collaborators have rewritten large portions of this textbook. Slater and Roth continue to maintain the validity of psychiatry as a predictive science based more on general medicine and neurology than on anthropology and sociology.

Among the subjects included are the examination of the psychiatric patient, personality deviations, affective disorders, schizophrenia, symptomatic psychoses, drug addiction, aspects of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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