This is Volume XXVIII of thirty-eight in a collection on General Psychology. Originally published in 1938, this study developed from a conviction that psychotherapy is not an art but a technical procedure based upon scientific principles. It is a part of the science of psychology and psychopathology.

1. Some General Principles; 2. ::; 3. The Symptomatology of Mental Suffering; 4. ::; 5. Psychic Health as an Experience; 6. Technical Tools of Psychotherapy; 7. The Relation between Physician and Patient; 8. The Psychotherapeutic Systems; 9. Group Psychotherapy; ch0010 The Treatment of Specific Types of Neuroses and Psychopathies; 11. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of the Psychoses and the Psychology of Shock Treatment;