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This is an unusual book and one to be recommended. The death of the author, born in Minnesota of Norwegian descent, is a great loss. His approach is broad and tolerant. He believes that workers can disagree scientifically without generating personal resentments, and one may hope that his sympathetic, scientific attitude will help toward mutual understanding among analysts.
The style is discursive but not diffuse. Braatfy integrates with his psychoanalytic understanding a knowledge of the literature of other fields, particularly psychology and physiology. He had an open and inquiring mind and could be critical in a constructive fashion. He saw the importance of a number of vital psychoanalytic contributions by analysts at whom the more doctrinaire may look askance. Alexander is perhaps the only analyst who fares poorly—unfairly so, I think, since the essentials of his valid contributions are not dealt with.
Braatfy favored using the couch but saw that the 'too early use of the couch and nonfocused free associations … re-enforce this