Review of Clinical and abnormal psychology

Abstract

Reviews the book, Clinical and abnormal psychology by J. E Wallace Wallin (1927). The book is divided into four parts. Part I deals briefly with the different viewpoints and methods obtaining in present day psychology; different types of variation in the individual expressed in various "ages" as chronological age, physiological age, etc; and the aims, methods, and general principles of the psychoclinical examination. Part II, on intelligence, besides a rather full discussion of individual and group intelligence tests, contains chapters on sensory defects, keenness of sensitivity, attention, imagery, association and other topics. It closes with a chapter on thought, language, speech defects and reasoning. Part III is entitled "Motility" and Part IV "Emotivity" Mental abnormalities and defects are discussed insofar as they are germane to the purpose of the book. There are a number of illustrations and tables. While much of the content of the book is not new, the author has performed a real service in collecting and organizing for the student a considerable amount of valuable material that has been scattered and hence not readily available. The book is a careful and methodical piece of work, based to a large extent upon investigations to be found in the literature. One feels that it is a solid work, as sound as it could well be in view of the present stage of development of clinical psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)