It seems that each year brings a smattering of new books that are powerfully critical of the psychoanalytic movement. There is, then, something eminently refreshing about a straightforward book like The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis. It contains 250 letters dating from 1906 to 1925, organized chronologically. They paint a vivid portrait of this father and son couple: their professional practices, friendships, preferences, rivalries; of administrative matters—Rank was the first secretary of Freud's Viennese Psychoanalytic Society and co-editor and publisher of both Imago and Zeitschrift; and most compellingly, of the dynamic and rich relationship that the Freudian analysts developed: their shared struggles, theoretical disagreements, and