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IN this elegant and well-documented study, the author uses a life-time of clinical experience and a highly developed critical faculty when discussing the cognate work of others. As befits a member of the Tavistock Clinic, the only large body of consultative and practising psycho-therapists in Great Britain, the author sees in the development of speech in the individual a parallelism to the development of the body through a compressed re-capitulation of the evolutionary development of the species through the ages. Thus, from the very first id cries of the baby every further stage of speech control, as a method of communicating ideas, is but adding a further layer of psychological development on what is more primitive. Conversely, the major defects of speech, representing loss of such higher layers, such as aphasia, dyslalia, and stammering, are treated by conducting the patient through a yocal training largely based on the evolution of language, deduced by the comparative study of primitive languages and the natural efforts of an infant in endeavouring to make his wants understood ; this, of course, in addition to any ad hoc psychological treatment.
Speech and Voice
Their Evolution, Pathology and Therapy. By Dr. Leopold Stein. Pp. xii + 233. (London : Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1942.) 15s. net.
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HUGHES, L. Speech and Voice. Nature 151, 292 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151292b0
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