“The bibliography of treaties is likely to be of much practical use in coming years and represents a great deal of most fruitful labour. The bibliography of works dealing with the subject, though not exhaustive, will be helpful. An excellent index concludes a very thorough piece of work.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p265 Ap 29 ’20 1600w
O’HIGGINS, HARVEY JERROLD. Secret springs. *$2 (3c) Harper 130
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The author outlines the system of a Dr X who has “largely uncovered the mechanism by which the mind affects health” and who has evolved this system of mental hygiene according to which he treats his patients and directs them to safeguard themselves. It is based on the Freudian theory of psychoanalysis from which Dr X deviates and upon which he enlarges to some extent by not emphasising the sex element with the same insistence. The contents consider suppressions: In love and marriage; In health; In childhood; In happiness and success; In Theodore Roosevelt; In character and conduct; In dreams; In religion.
“Mr O’Higgins is agreeably free of Freudian and sexual obsessions.”
+ Nation 111:694 D 15 ’20 50w
“It is a very cheerful book, not only because it escapes what the writer calls the ‘unspeakable’ abstruseness and laboratory gruesomeness of the expositions of Freud and his followers, but also because everybody gets cured.” Renee Darmstadter
+ − N Y Evening Post p8 D 31 ’20 400w