Jelliffe treats of the outlook in using psycho-analysis for patients of advanced years, and reports on his attempts in this direction. He can point to a series of successes, and calls special attention to neuroses in the menopause; further he mentions cases of old men in whom the decrease of capacity to practise coitus was accompanied by increasing eroticism. This caused frequent excitations which came to nothing, high blood pressure, an inclination to bleeding from the arteries, together with greater mental