Précis de Psychiatrie
Abstract
The scope of this text is practical (Paris:is freeClinique-PsychophysiologieHenri Baruk.and most useful.of the dynamicTh#{233}rapeutique. By Dr. Masson et Cie., 1950.)propound book French andof the psychiatriccertain schoolsof thought.and doesIn presenting the author to American psychiatrists one may say that he belongs to the pioneers who have applied the methods of pharmacological cxperimentation to psychiatry by producing experimental catatonia in animals with bulbocapnine. Butas Baruk has pointed the biological approach the basis of personality, out in previous publications, will not explain completely emphasizing that one shouldbest and theof contemporaryTo the psy-psychiatry.chiatrist who reads French widen his sphere of interest,recommended.who bookwants to is highly M. D.,Ind.MEYER.L.BRUETSCH,Indianapolis,THE COMMONSENSE PSYCHIATRY OF ADOLFnot lose sight of the psychologic aspects of human behavior. For this textbook of psychiatry the author has assembled a large amount of sound information, which was collected during 20 years as head of the Maison Nationale of Charenton. It was in this mental hospital, located in the suburbs of Paris, where Bayle in 1822 first recognized dementia paralytica as a separate disease entity, characterized by a clinical syndrome and pathologic-anatomic changes. Of late, the psychiatric teaching and working organization, as elaborated by Baruk at the Charenton institution, has been introduced in