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Excerpts from the Professional Press on the work of
DR. WM. STEKEL
We have lacked thus far a systematic clinical application of Freudiananalysis. Stekel’s work fills this need.
Jung, in Mediz. Klinik.
... A standard work; a milestone in the psychiatric and psycho-therapeuticliterature.
Geh. Sanitätsrat Dr. Gerster, in Die Neue Generation.
It would be regrettable if the work did not attract fully the attentionof the scientific world; its deep sobriety and the fulness of itsdetails render it a treasury of information, primarily for the physician,but, in large measure, of interest also to the educationist, the minister,the teacher and, not least, to the student of criminology....
Horch, in Archiv f. Kriminalogie.
These case histories will be read with great interest by everyone,including those who are inclined to maintain a sceptical attitude towardspsychoanalysis.
Eulenburg, in Medizinische Klinik.
Stekel’s work teaches practitioners a great many things they didnot know before, particularly about the significance of psychology andsexual science in the practice of medicine.
Hitschmann, in Internat. Zeitschrift f. Psychoanalyse.
It is Stekel’s extraordinary merit that he compels us to take intoaccount a pressing mass of data which he brings to light with a scientificzeal which is unfortunately still rare,—facts and observations sopenetrating, so true to life that these often render unnecessary anyformal statement of the obvious deductions which flow from them.
Die Neue Generation.
The most modern problems are considered, new viewpoints arebrought out, while the excesses in the technique and interpretation ofthe earlier stages of psychoanalysis are avoided.
Kermauner, in Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift.
All in all, Stekel’s is a work for which I bespeak the widest interestnot only among physicians, but also among jurists, educationists,sociologists and ministers. Only an understanding of the mental lifeof the individual will yield a proper view of our social life.
Liepmann, in Zeitschrift f. Sexualwissensch.
The work is a treasury for all who have occasion to probe the depthsof human life and should be a source of considerable information andstimulus to every jurist who takes in earnest his professional duties.
Geh. Justizrat Dr. Horch, in Archiv f. Kriminalogie.
It does not matter from what angle the work of Stekel is approached.Any consideration of it reveals rich material. Stekel isa writer who handles his subjects in a lavish manner; lavish, but withthat restraint which bends all to the urgency of his themes. He evidentlyapproaches his clinical work with the same exuberant interest.There he reaps through psychoanalysis a rich harvest of results. He hascollected these results and presented them for the dissemination of suchknowledge of the sexual disturbances as he thus obtained. Facts are therein great number. They cannot be gainsaid. Stekel’s own evaluation ofsuch facts and his earnest plea for their consideration, both by the medicalprofession and by the society of men and women where these