Abstract
IN his preface, Pfister, who is a Protestant pastor in Zurich, notes the difficulties inherent in the exposition of the analytical method to the ordinary reader, difficulties caused by the absence of generally accepted data and by the fact that the details of a single analysis would fill a volume. He claims that his vocation and studies have brought to his notice hundreds of mentally tormented persons in whom aberrations of the emotional life in childhood underlay the torment. Yet scientific psychologists have scandalously neglected this important topic, and “when a new and unfamiliar phenomenon like the activity of the unconscious makes its appearance they take to their heels-at least such has been the behaviour of most of the German psychologists.”
Love in Children and its Aberrations: a Book for Parents and Teachers.
By Oskar Pfister. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. Pp. 576. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1924.) 24s. net.
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C., M. Love in Children and its Aberrations: a Book for Parents and Teachers . Nature 115, 525–526 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115525a0
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