(1937). Psychoanalytic Review, 24A:108-109 Psychanalyse et Criminologie. By Dr. Genil-Perrin. Paris: Librairie Felix Alcan, 1934. Pp. 188. The author of this monograph points out that psychoanalysis is not only a medical procedure to be applied in certain therapeutic situations, but it has developed into a method of investigating various human activities, including the nature of criminality to which it pretends to bring a new and efficient solution. As the application of psychoanalysis to criminology is as yet relatively unknown in France, and as it has many important relationships to specialists and also to the lay public, the author has prepared a discussion of several aspects of the situation. He states that he is not a psychoanalyst, that his object is to present the doctrine, and that his review includes only the freudian type of analysis, and not the activities of the schools of Jung and Adler. Preliminary to the main body of his presentation, he outlines the principal features of the analytic method, the structure of the personality, evolution of tendencies and traumatic situations; the subject matter is th [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
