The two authors of this book set themselves no small task when they undertook to give an account of the transference-phenomenon to a circle of readers who know nothing at all, or very little, of psycho-analysis. So much the more is their performance of this task worthy of recognition. They consider the transference mainly from the point of view of the repetition-compulsion; they show the importance of the son's attitude to the father in the relations of the adult man to religion and to persons in authority. They describe the way in which the neurotic is bound to the family, and go on to explain this pathological fixation. In conclusion they give an account of the part which the transference plays in analytic therapy.