In the preface the authors indicate that their scientific curiosity in the field of psychiatry is directed primarily to its organic aspects. As Freud has pointed out repeatedly, this phase of our problems is of such fundamental importance that any critical and rounded presentation of all of the available facts would be eagerly welcomed. If the authors had performed this service competently, one would willingly forgive them their ignorant and prejudiced misrepresentation of psychoanalytic theory and practice. When, however, one searches vainly for a scholarly analysis of any of the problems to which the authors refer, whether they be in the field of psychiatry, biochemistry, endocrinology, toxicology, pharmacology, or vitamine deficiency, one is forced to put the book aside with a conviction that