| Summary: | "To understand the ramifications of present-day psychiatry, a knowledge of its history is pertinent; to understand the more chaotic field of mental healing, it is essential to know its history. This work is an effort to supply this requirement for those who have come upon psychotherapy in the full flower of its modem growth. The present inquiry into the genetic history of psychotherapy started eighteen years ago with a publisher's request that a brief book be written on the "differences between Freud, Jung and Adler." Clear cut as the assignment appeared to be, it soon became evident that analysis of the broad historical-social base of mental healing, transcending study of these schools of analytic psychotherapy, was required to complete the task. An earlier effort in this direction resulted in publication of The Mind of Man, which appeared in 1937. The present volume is an extension--a rethinking and a rewriting of that work"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)
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