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This survey written for students of psychology claims to emphasize '… that psychology is not static but dynamic, that it aims not at a mere classification of data but at their interrelationship, not at the surface but at the depth of behavior'. A twelve-page sketch of psychoanalysis is presented in a way that does not differ from what is known to readers of current newspapers or magazines. The author's criticism of Freud culminates in the following statements: 'Freud's terminology is a regression to animistic concepts; drives are personified, and inner psychological processes are pictured like actors performing a play. Psychoanalytic claims also seemed doubtful when investigated by scientific methods… The basic fallacy of many psychoanalytic statements is their oversimplification on the one hand, their overcomplication on the other hand, and their overgeneralization in both respects.' As a grudging afterthought, it is admitted: 'However, in spite of all the objections to method, findings, and claims, it becomes more and more clear that the revolution of thought that Freud stimulated has changed the entire concept of psychology.'