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In undertaking to review the work of a scientist one is conscious of an obligation to treat with respect the fruit of many years of work; but at the same time the voice of criticism must not be entirely stifled.
In his work on the general theory of the neuroses Hermann Nunberg sets out to give a connected exposition of psycho-analytic points of view regarding neurotic diseases. The book has grown out of the lectures on its subject delivered by the author over a period of several years for the Training Committee of the Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society.
The material on which Nunberg's account is based is derived from the many case-histories collected by him in his practice; the psycho-analytical concepts are derived from Freud. Approaching his task in an earnest spirit the author does not shirk the labour of exact thinking and applies to the motley world of experience the strict rules of scientific thought. The keen blade of his dialectic mirrors in its polished surface the system of