One can understand the reason for a book written to expound psychoanalysis and also that for one written in criticism of it, but what is one to make of an exposition professing to be an 'introduction to the study of psycho-analysis' which dissents from most of the views held by psycho-analysts and from a good many the author falsely imputes to them?

The aim of the book is stated to be the endeavour to provide an exposition of what the author terms 'the new psychology' and to link it on to academic psychology. The method of doing this is quite simple. One enters the familiar third stage of opposition and decrees that what