Ernst Falzeder's remarkable scholarship reveals the early days of psychoanalysis as even more a matter of tangled relationships and experiments gone awry than most would like to imagine. In Psychoanalytic Filiations, his mastery of a vast range of materials, many not widely known to English speakers, allows readers to experience, more intimately than before possible, the texture of Freud's relationships with peers and patients. The qualities of the first psychoanalyst's ties to Ferenczi, Abraham, Jung, Bleuler, and others emerge vividly from the materials Falzeder has gathered, as the force, sometimes for better, often for worse, of Freud's personality is made evident and opened to fresh contemplation.