Review of Fear: The Autobiography of James Edwards

Abstract

Reviews the book, Fear: The Autobiography of James Edwards by John Rathbone Oliver (1927). Although the author of this book is a psychiatrist, he states in the preface that it is "in no sense a scientific treatment of fear and its mental mechanisms." Most of the book is written in the first person, as an autobiography of a patient, with a considerable amount of material skillfully brought in as hospital notes and records, and as long conversations between the physician and the patient. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)