From my acquaintance with the psycho-analytic movement in other countries it is safe to say that nowhere has the interest in psycho-analysis been so diffuse and at the same time so superficial and confused as in the United States. During the past year the tendency to cloud the perplexed public mind has been decidedly increased by the considerable publicity which attended the visits of several European analysts, including Ferenczi, Rank and Adler to this country. Moreover, the charlatans, who have always followed on the trail of every great movement in science, have not been slow to utilize Freud's position in regard to lay analysts, to excuse their totally inadequate preparation of any kind.

On the other hand, the psycho-analytic teachings in regard to the