Abnormal Psychology (international Library Of Psychology)

The International Library of Psychology ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Founded by C.K.Ogden The International Library of Psychology ABNORMAL AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY In 19 Volumes I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV Psychotherapy with Children Personality and Mental Illness Inferiority Feelings Abnormal Psychology Dimensions of Personality The Dynamics of Anxiety and Hysteria Psychology of the Normal and the Subnormal The Neurotic Personality Mental Conflicts and Misconduct The Concentric Method in the Diagnosis of Psychoneurotics A Handbook of Psychiatry The Psychology of Emotion Psychosurgical Problems Personality and the Frontal Lobes Psychotic Art Allen Bowlby Brachfeld Coriat Eysenck Eysenck Goddard Gordon Healy Laignel-Lavastine Lichtenstein MacCurdy Mettler Petrie Reitman iii XVI Conditions of Nervous Anxiety and their Treatment XVII Emotion and Insanity XVIII A Short History of Psychotherapy XIX Constitution-Types in Delinquency Stekel Thalbitzer Walker Willemse ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY ISADOR H CORIAT First published in 1910 by Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 1910 Isador H Coriat All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. The publishers have made every effort to contact authors/ copyright holders of the works reprinted in the International Library of Psychology. This has not been possible in every case, however, and we would welcome correspondence from those individuals/companies we have been unable to trace. These reprints are taken from original copies of each book. In many cases the condition of these originals is not perfect. The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of these reprints, but wishes to point out that certain characteristics of the original copies will, of necessity, be apparent in reprints thereof. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-203-98157-X Master e-book ISBN Abnormal Psychology vi ISBN 0415-20922-6 (Print Edition) Abnormal and Clinical Psychology: 19 Volumes ISBN 0415-21123-9 The International Library of Psychology: 204 Volumes ISBN 0415-19132-7 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION It is extremely gratifying to the author that a second edition of this book should be called for within the space of three years. During this period abnormal psychology has made steady and important advances, particularly in the field of psycho-analysis with its various applications to the neuroses, wit, literature, mythology, and folk lore. For reasons of space, however, and because such material does not really lend itself to popular presentation, the