The Search Within consists of selections from several books by Theodor Reik, abridged and edited by the publisher. Though written at different times, the selections are held together by the author's original and passionate personality.

Thirty Years With Freud offers a lively picture of Freud, spiced with anecdotes and recollections of his wisdom and wit. Here is Freud seen through the eyes of a man whose background, like Freud's, is the culture of the old Austrian Empire, its music, art, and literature.

The second part of the volume is taken from Fragments of a Great Confession. Reik's ability to look into his unconscious and to lose himself in free association often leads to repetitiousness. Hence the abbreviated form of the Great Confession offered here may, for many readers, be preferable to the original. It remains a remarkable self-revelation and an excellent contribution to the understanding of obsessional and compulsive symptoms. Reik urges every analyst