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Dr. Garma continues to provide the Spanish speaking countries with psychoanalytic teachings. This is his third book and a fourth, on the neuroses, is in preparation. As the title indicates the volume now appearing is an account of present-day analysis and the perspectives offered by recent work. He brings up to date views on anxiety, libidinal types, the theory of instincts, and the question of the superego, using Freud's latest works as a basis, expressing some of his own views incidentally. Among special topics, he discusses infancy, with special reference to the work of Melanie Klein; the stages of libidinal development, following Abraham; female sexuality, referring not only to Freud but also to Brunswick, Lampl-de Groot, and Helene Deutsch; puberty; dreams, based on the chapter in the New Introductory Lectures; psychoses; organ neuroses and organic disease, with special reference to the work of Americans; therapy, with a discussion of Reich and Reik; applied analysis, chiefly in connection with belles lettres; the relation to biology; psychoanalysis and pavlovian neurology, in which he summarizes the views of Ischlondsky, French, Kubie and others. Finally in a chapter on the psychoanalytic movement, he tells of the work of the various psychoanalytic institutes, gives the Chicago statistics on treatment, and prints at length as an example of training schedules, the entire announcement of courses of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute for the season 1940–1941. For a rapid survey of present-day trends and issues in psychoanalysis, and the type of work being done, this book should be of great use to its readers.