Ellis has set out to scrutinize contemporary psychoanalytic literature for the purpose of evaluating its compliance with standards of scientific research. He chose the issues of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, The Psychoanalytic Review, The American Imago, and The Psychiatric Quarterly, of the first half of 1947. According to Ellis, the common pitfalls of psychoanalytic research are: dogmatic assertion, overpositivism, generalization from few cases, assuming a hypothesized point as proven, far-fetched interpretation, biased presentation of facts, use of faulty statistical procedures, and the (traditionally familiar) overemphasis on sexualization. However not all is lost! Some commendable approaches are recognized. Among these are: the application of the experimental approach (Rosen: The Treatment of Schizophrenia), the raising of exploratory