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This is a series of lectures given in advanced seminars of the Psychoanalytic Institutes of New York and Philadelphia. In his preface, the author disclaims that in such a book all technical problems can be covered. He also states he is aware that his opinions are colored by his personal views, and expresses the fear that therein may lie one of the defects of his book. The reviewer cannot concur with him in this. The author not only offers a sound presentation of accepted psychoanalytic technique as developed by Freud and some of his outstanding pupils, but he emphasizes in addition the subjective conditions of psychoanalytic technique introduced by the psychoanalyst's personality. Lorand's personal approach can be taken as one example of a happy blending of personal traits of the analyst with available technical procedures which results from a thorough awareness by the analyst of his own faculties and limitations combined with a thorough knowledge of all available techniques.
This book is not a handbook of technique, but a loosely knit sequence of lectures, intended to stimulate the student to work out certain basic technical problems, but leaving enough leeway for questions. These and the author's answers could not, of course, be included in this volume, but one wishes they might nevertheless. Such an addendum would enhance the charm of the author's unpretentious guidance of younger colleagues, avoiding always rigid ex-cathedra pronouncements.
The best chapters are those which discuss specific technical problems as I Introduction, II Interpretation, IX Dream Analysis, X Problems of Counter Transference, and XI Termination. Parallel with these subjects of technique run, somewhat inconsistently, a series of diagnostic subdivisions: III Anxieties and Phobias, IV Sexual Difficulties in the Male, V Sexual Difficulties in the Female, VI Compulsion Neurosis, VII Character Neurosis, and VIII Neurotic Depression. Each of these chapters is almost entirely devoted to