The author's desire to be of use to the mentally ill is obviously genuine. It is clear that the régimes and the admonitions offered in the present volume are in themselves of no great value, and that their value depends in large measure upon the relationship of the patient to the individual who utters them—in other words, upon the nature of the transference. The author appears to have no awareness of this, and is under the impression that what he says to his patients is of prime importance. This volume does not vary much from its type—the book which attempts to rationalize transference, while remaining more or less blind to the phenomenon itself.