The Human Mind: The Organ of Thought in Function and Dysfunction

and Depression on the other; qualifying Assertion by Immediacy, and Depression by Deliberation. The neuroses of Simplification are, then, Assertion and Depression; and the symptoms of Assertion are often experienced in clinical practice'. Admittedly it is a little unfair to take the above out of its context but even read with the context, it evokes in the readers mind a sensation like that caused by the noise oi clashing bells or the breaking of glass. One reads on, bewildered. In the last chapter the author brings his psychological technique to bear on the present war. We are informed that Nazi propaganda is the propaganda of a ' perverted Immediacy' in defence, and that ' its effect on the stable deliberate is inappreciable; much of it is rejected as absurd, and the rest as fatuous fussiness. But in a deliberate already the prey of persisting conflict, the effect of raising the intensity of the moment is to increase his pre-existing Anxietyand so on. As a specimen of therapeutic procedure recommended by the author for combating mental dysfunction the following may be cited: ' The patient^ is first asked to look at the match-box on the consulting-room desk: the match-box is then removed, and he is asked to make a visual image of it _ and