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Synopsis

A study of its distempers, deformities and disorders. reprints the twentieth-fifth maudsley lecture, henry maudsley: his work and influence by sir audrey lewis from the journal of mental science, 1951. (classics in psychology and psychiatry).

Item Description

8vo. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. [32] + 571 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. Some scattered foxing, including flyleaves and fore edge; otherwise a very good copy. Henry Maudsley (1825-1918) was a pioneering psychiatrist and helped establish the subject on a scientific basis. This is a facsimile of the second edition of 1895, itself a revision of the second part of The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind of 1867. It also reprints the 1851 lecture on Maudsley by Sir Aubrey Lewis (1900-75).