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THE late Dr. Suttie may be said to have belonged to the ‘eclectic’ school of English medical psychologists who, influenced by the teaching of pioneers like Freud, have nevertheless never followed slavishly his metapsychology or bound themselves strictly to his psychotherapeutic technique. Indeed, from the outset Suttie questioned the strict psychoanalytic theory on both logical and biological grounds, and later came to reject its basic explanatory concepts for clinical reasons as well. “The Origins of Love and Hate”, however, is not a mere criticism of Freudian theory. It offers an alternative account of the underlying psychical determinants of culture and character (including those of the psychopathological manifestations of the latter) as a constructive contribution to general and abnormal psychology.
The Origins of Love and Hate
By Dr. Ian D. Suttie. Pp. xvi + 275. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Philosophy and Psychology. Nature 137, 451 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137451a0
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