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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Georg Thieme Verlag, Published 1927. Hardcover, xi, 462 pp.; 25 cm; text in German. In Good condition, no dust jacket. Blue cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on the front and spine, nicking to the cloth along edges, corner tips, and at the head and foot of the spine. Spine faded with the gold lettering rubbed and dimmed; fading extends slightly onto the top edge of the front board. Binding is tight. Light soiling along the edges of the text block. Pages lightly toned but otherwise unmarked. From the library of psychiatrist Jurgen Ruesch (1909-1995), with his stamp "Jurgen Ruesch / Dr. med." on the front free endpaper. Ruesch trained in medicine at the University of Zurich and went on to a distinguished career at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute of the University of California, San Francisco; he is best known to historians of psychiatry and communication theory for his collaboration with Gregory Bateson on "Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry" (1951), a foundational text of the Palo Alto group on communication and family systems. A standard German-language reference work on psychotherapy as it stood in 1927, gathering chapter-length contributions from leading figures of interwar German and Austrian psychiatry: Karl Birnbaum on the theoretical foundations of psychotherapy; Ernst Jolowicz on suggestive therapy; Gustav R. Heyer on hypnosis and hypnotherapy; Hans von Hattingberg on psychoanalysis and related methods; Erwin Wexberg on individual-psychological treatment; and Arthur Kronfeld on psychagogy and the psychotherapeutic theory of education. Cited in Grinstein's "The Index of Psychoanalytic Writings" (no. 2908). Contents: Allgemeine Einführung (Karl Birnbaum); Die Suggestivtherapie (Ernst Jolowicz); Hypnose und Hypnotherapie (Gustav R. Heyer); Psychoanalyse und verwandte Methoden (Hans von Hattingberg); Die individualpsychologische Behandlung (Erwin Wexberg); Psychagogik oder psychotherapeutische Erziehungslehre (Arthur Kronfeld); Literaturverzeichnis; Sachregister.