Review of An Outline of Abnormal Psychology

Abstract

Reviews the book, An Outline of Abnormal Psychology by J. W. Bridges (1919). This book is intended to be useful to "those medical students and students of social service who desire a general survey of this field but who have insufficient time for a regular supervised course or for extensive reading of the very much scattered literature." The book is found, however, to be more than a mere guidebook. Throughout the work impartial consideration is given to many and widely differing theories of the various phases of abnormal psychology. This outline will probably be of greater assistance to those already fairly familiar with the subject, but who need help in clarifying and systematizing their knowledge, than to those who, by the reading of this book alone, would gain their whole information. The work is at once too technical and too abbreviated to be very meaningful to the average laymen. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)