Practical Psychology and Psychiatry
For Use in Training-Schools for Attendants and Nurses and in Medical Classes, and as Ready Reference for the Practitioner (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Practical Psychology and Psychiatry: For Use in Training-Schools for Attendants and Nurses and in Medical Classes, and as Ready Reference for the Practitioner<br><br>It is a source of much gratification to the author that the hope expressed in the preface to the third edition has been realized: namely, that this book might become increasingly useful to medical students as well as nurses. The present revision concerns itself largely with those portions of especial interest to medical men.<br><br>The book has been very materially enlarged. There will be found a new section entitled "Symbolism in Sanity and in Insanity." Studies have been made of certain paranoid and hysterical states on the basis of Freud's researches and a more detailed description of symptoms and symptom groups incorporated. The section on "Management of Cases of Insanity from the Medical Standpoint" has been amplified and. it is hoped, improved.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.