This worth-while little book can be quickly read from cover to cover. Its author is not a psycho-analyst, but the authenticity of the book is sustained by A. A. Brill's introduction. In a colloquial style the author discusses such practical questions as are revealed by the chapter heads: 'Why be analysed?' 'How psycho-analysis works.' 'How it is done.' 'Who is the analyst?' Naturally so short a book has to omit much of importance. But it answers many questions which arise in the mind of anyone who is considering psycho-analysis; and it will save hours of explaining on the part of a physician who is advising a patient to be analysed. It may even be of service to those physicians who still regard Freud's discipline as a mysterious and occult cult.