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In this small book the author has succeeded in giving a clear account of psycho-analysis that should be useful to medical men, medical students and the general public.
He has wisely refrained from discussing the more controversial aspects of psycho-analysis, and limited himself to giving the reader a general idea of the principles underlying its theory and practice. He lays special stress on the two concepts, resistance and transference, which are of such fundamental importance in carrying out psycho-analytic treatment.
On p. 98 the author says that guilt and fear arise as a result of the Oepidus situation. I suppose by fear the author really means anxiety, for fear is manifest before the Oedipus situation arises.
It is a pity that the author refers to 'various methods of psycho-analytic treatment' (p. 154) as this can easily give a wrong impression to the reader. It is an established principle to keep the term psycho-analytic treatment solely for that method evolved by Freud and his followers.