Technique of Psychoanalytic Therapy: By Sandor Lorand, M.D. (International Universities Press Inc., New York. Pp. 251. Price $4.50.)

Any serious attempt to fill the well-known lacuna in psycho-analytical literature on the subject of technique is welcome. The present book, which has already been reprinted, is also welcome because of its good quality. It contains, as such a book should, numerous examples from the author's experience of more or less difficult situations with the most profitable way of dealing with them.

The author divides up the subject into the following chapters, finishing with a useful and extensive bibliography.

Introduction: General Consideration. First Contact with Patient. Basic Rules. Reassurance and Transference

Interpretation Phases of Transference. Timing of Interpretation. Defence Reactions, Resistance. Dogmatic Attitude, Activity, Working Through

Anxieties and Phobias

Sexual Difficulties in the Male

Sexual Difficulties in the Female

Compulsion Neurosis

Character Neurosis

Neurotic Depression