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The more expeditious form of psycho-analytic therapy, as represented by Ferenczi and Rank in their work Entwicklungsziele der Psychoanalyse, is here exemplified in relation to the technique of interpreting dreams in a case of obsessional neurosis in a woman which was cured in six months three years ago. Here we may see a distinguished dream-investigator and student of symbolism, such as Rank is, for 150 hours interpreting the patient's dreams with reference only to their symbolism and the 'psycho-analytic situation'. Through the dreams and the associations to them we learn the phases of the resistance and the process of cure. The author regards impatience, resignation, acceptance of a (younger) sister, the weaning phase, identification with and detachment from the analyst as the chief factors in the cure, and relates some of them closely to his book, Das Träuma der Geburt. The psycho-analytic interpretation of dreams practised here takes into account not so much the day's residues and unconscious instinctual forces as the still unknown reactions which change in the course of treatment and in which 'alone' the process of cure can be followed. The whole mental life of this patient seems to be absorbed in carrying out the idea of 'playing a trick'. Making use of more abundant material, Rank intends later on to demonstrate that such unconscious ruling motives direct the course of human destinies, that they essentially condition human capabilities for love and work, and that they must be considered as of importance also in the formation of neuroses. The perusal of detailed accounts of analyses is well known to be a trial of patience: this book, too, will not be read at one sitting. But since Rank's numerous, highly significant, and in some cases revolutionary suggestions must be weighed, tried, and discussed, we should not grudge the pains involved in reading.