This is an interesting report by Murphy and Weinreb on their teaching experiences. They recommend teaching students to use the associative anamnesis as described by Felix Deutsch. This technique looks easy but is difficult to apply because it demands emotional maturity of the doctor. Such maturity is hard to find among students of psychiatry, who usually choose this field because of their own emotional difficulties—fateful in psychiatry because the doctor's problems are so similar to those of his patients. One great danger which the authors describe is the overenthusiastic and uncritical acceptance of psychoanalytic principles and the student's tendency to plunge prematurely into full-fledged analytic therapy.