We are long since accustomed to expect misrepresentations by non-analysts who set themselves up to be explaining psychoanalysis. This author is one of those whose intuition and reading have given him some insight into certain phases of psychoanalysis, but who is so confused and at the same time so opinionated that his book consists of a mixture of sensible statements, ridiculous assertions, patronizing concessions and moralizing preachment.

The naiveté of the book is almost beyond belief. For instance, the author is at great pains to show in one of his case reports how he at no time suggested sex. The following is only one extraordinary sentence in a most extraordinary paragraph in which the author discusses