The Biology of the Individual [Review of the book The biology of the individual. An investigation of the most recent advances

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Reviews the book, The Biology of the Individual: An Investigation of the Most Recent Advances by Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases (1934). This volume comprises the Proceedings of the fourteenth annual meeting of the Association edited by Drs. J. Ramsay Hunt, Thomas K. Davis and Angus M. Frantz. The theme of this meeting was "the concept of totality which we recognize by such expressions as individuality and personality." Eighteen papers, by as many authors, are presented covering various aspects of "constitution"-anatomical, endocrinological, medical, psychiatric, and psychological. If the papers were intended to elucidate the problem of individuality from different points of view to the end of offering at least a beginning of integration in this divergent field, then they fall short of the goal. On the other hand, if we consider the book as a collection of papers presented at a scientific meeting, there is much good in it. Twelve of the papers are either reviews or theoretical essays in their respective fields, five are reports of experiments, apparently here made for the first time, and one is chiefly an essay with a discussion of preliminary data of an investigation in progress. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)