In their Introduction the authors state that 'the drama releases the feeling into an intuitive freedom with itself far more profoundly effective than mere intellectual understanding of the dramatized situation. Then it enlists these released impulses in a new synthesis for a higher sublimation'. They then proceed to say how the drama can supplement and, perhaps, be a substitute for psycho-analytic treatment.

A number of plays (Magic, Eyes of Youth, Peter Ibbetson, Redemption, The Army with Banners, The Willow Tree, The Yellow Jacket, Dear Brutus, and The Jest) are examined psycho-analytically; the complexes are pointed out and the underlying conflicts revealed.