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Walter B. Swift, of Boston, Mass. "Constructive Delusions, " Dr. John T. MacCurdy and Dr. W. T. Treadway, of New York, N. Y. "Narcissism," Dr. J. S. Van Teslaar, of Boston, Mass. "The Origin of Supernatural Explanations," Dr. Tom A. Williams, of Washington, D. C. "The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Hystero-Epilepsy, " L. E. Emerson, Ph. D., of Boston, Mass.
MacCurdy , having Jones and Freud in mind, protests against these views to this extent: he says that the present state of man, rather than the past, is the natural state, and that at least in reverting to the primitive state man becomes unnatural.
The central problem of the education of national consciousness, in our view, is to make desires more conscious and to subject them to discipline and the influence of the best ideals of American life. MacCurdy says that by making instincts conscious we take a great step in advance.
PSYCHOLOGY AND PARENTHOOD. By H. Addington Bruce. Pp. IX plus 293. Dodd, Mead & Co., 1915. $1.25 net. THE INDIVIDUAL DELINQUENT. By William Healy. Pp. XV plus 830. Little, Brown & Co., 1915. $5.00 net. HUMAN MOTIVES. By J. J. Putnam. Pp. XVII plus 179. Little, Brown & Co., 1915. $1.00 net. JOHN T. MACCURDY, M. D. Psychiatric Institute, Ward's Island and
We believe that careful clinical studies confirm our opinion and that his classification is based on less thorough observation and analysis. This subject will be discussed at greater length in a forthcoming book on “The Psychology of Morbid and Normal Emotions,” by Dr. MacCurdy.
In the beginning, as MacCurdy says, the contrasts between groups were sharp, and these definitely separated groups must have felt toward one another not only antagonism but a sense of being different in kind. Intensity of feelings of opposition tends to magnify small differences into specific differences.
It is a construing of natural means for getting out of a difficulty. Dr. DR. JOHN T. MACCURDY, New York: I have been very much interested in this paper by Dr. Emerson and the part that has interested me most in it has been the therapeutic side. I cannot feel, however, that it adds a great deal to our knowledge of epilepsy, that is, of idiopathic epilepsy.
It would seem that these constructive delusions really correspond to interpretative schemes whereby a certain amount of the split off libido becomes synthesized. In that sense these delusions are constructive and are, therefore, helpful to the patient. They represent partial curative processes. DR. JOHN T. MACCURDY, New York: I would like to refer briefly, first, to the point made by Dr.
MacCurdy thinks the intensity of suspicion and hatred of peoples toward one another belongs to the pathological field, and that one expression of this is the peculiarity of the mental processes by which nations always justify their own cause in war. This, however, is perhaps an exaggeration, since we can trace these states of mind in all the history of the race.
MacCurdy, John T., “A Clinical Study of Epileptic Deterioration.” Psychiatric Bulletin, April, 1916. In the previous chapter mention has been made of our view that manic-depressive insanity is a disease fundamentally based on some constitutional defect, presumably physical, but that its symptoms are determined by psychological mechanisms.
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