Die Hypnotische Heilweise Und Ihre Technik. Eine Theoretische Und Praktische Einführung in Die Hypno- Und Suggestionstherapie Nebst Einer Vergleichenden Darstellung Der Freudschen Psychoanalyse: By Dr. Max Levy-Suhl. (Verlag von Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart, 1922, pp. 146.)

Had this book appeared twenty-five years ago—and from its contents there is absolutely no reason why it should not have—it could have been called as excellent a text-book of the subject as it was then possible to write. To-day, however, it is hard not to be somewhat more exacting in one's expectations.

In favour of the book it may be said that it is an excellently comprehensive and well-arranged description of hypnotism and its phenomena. But beyond this there is little to say. It is written in a conscientious, but heavy manner. As soon as any question of theory occurs, the author is content with the most superficial circumlocution; in his final summing up of the psychology of suggestion, for instance, he concludes that suggestion is a special form of 'Psychogenie'. The Freud-Ferenczi theory of suggestion is not mentioned, nor is the word 'bertragung'.

In one chapter a brief account is given of psycho-analysis. No serious objection can be taken to it, though certainly no psycho-analyst would have presented the subject in the way here done. The author's attitude is one of respect and even admiration, modified with considerable caution. He naturally maintains that