Abstract
THE author of this lively and well-written book, besides being a medical practitioner, is quite clear that a doctor should also be something of a psychologist. The type of psychology which appeals to him is sufficiently indicated by the title. He has no use for “the older subjective language” which includes words like sensation, consciousness and will. Equally little use has he for the psycho-analytic libido and censor. He sees nothing in the “human machine” except the structure of the organism and its responses to environment. Few psychologists will agree with him; but his method of psychological approach has not prevented him from writing an extremely good book on its own lines, quite intelligible to the layman, and useful also to medical men.
Reactions of the Human Machine
John Yerbury
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By. Pp. 288. (London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1936.) 8s. 6d. net.
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Reactions of the Human Machine. Nature 139, 51 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139051d0
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