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Not always, but often enough, Bernard Shaw's epigram proves true: he who can does; he who cannot teaches. I did not suppress this free association when thinking of this book. It is really rather a scandal that a book with this title should be published by an author who is evidently unable to discriminate between the way in which psycho-analysis acts and the opposite aims to which other methods devote themselves. We are presented here with a confused farrago in which all imaginable methods are jumbled together; at one stage of the 'analysis' we move on to hypnosis, and then pass to something else, and so on.
The opportunities for training in psycho-analysis are grouped into four: (a) 'Freudian school'. The Berlin and Vienna Institutes are mentioned, but no others. (b) Dr. Stekel. (c) Dr. Jung. (d) Dr. von Hattingberg. Dr. Adler is mercifully omitted. In the short bibliography I read with astonishment that The Ego and the Id, which actually was translated by Mrs. Riviere, was translated by E. Jones of Tavistock Square.
It is all a great pity, since the author is far from being ungifted, and has an interesting style in presentation.