Automatic Writing: An Approach to the Unconscious

xi, 186 pp. Foreword by Eileen J. Garrett. Introduction by William A. White. Dr. Muhl has applied the method of automatic handwriting for discovering what was going on in the minds of her patients which was inaccessible to ordinary questioning, but Dr. Muhl is not a psychiatrist of the 19th century, but of the present century, with a broad background of clinical experience and a knowledge of the work that has been done for the past twenty-five or thirty years in unravelling psychic mechanisms. With this training at her command automatic handwriting presents a much richer material for interpretation than ever before, and it is from this point of view of the utilization of an old method in the light of an immensely enlarged knowledge that Automatic Handwriting should be read. In addition to recounting the results of her experiments in automatic handwriting, Dr. Muhl has given a very simple, lucid and wonderfully clear account of the structure of the mind and of mental mechanisms sufficiently to make her conclusions understandable to the reader.--jacket