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By the term 'empathic index' the author understands the answer a person gives to his question: What personage from history or legend do you admire most, or whom would you consider your ideal? The answer, he says, definitely shows the trend of the person's adjustment to the world.
The mechanism of the 'empathic index' he bases on the process of identification.
The author's view that the transference mechanism is only a finer form of identification and depends altogether on it is not in accordance with the psycho-analytic theory of transference.
The author's final remark that 'one can truly say, "Tell me your empathic index and I will tell you who you are"' is far too sweeping. This 'empathic index' can only give at the most a hint in a certain direction and no more. Dr. Brill apparently lays far too much stress on its value.