To Begin at the end, I found Breger's new biography of Freud very disturbing. This is hardly what I expected to feel—a point I shall return to. Having read the biographical accounts of Jones, Gay, and Schur, I questioned what another biography could offer. Breger has written a relatively short (386 pages), literary account of Freud's life and work. It reads quite a bit like a novel, even like a mystery novel, and gives a vivid sense of the world of both Freud's early and later life. Breger provides a sophisticated understanding of Freud's psychoanalytic thinking. He also acknowledges Freud's seminal contributions (i.e., his understanding