A Search for Man's Sanity. The Selected Letters of Trigant Burrow, with Biographical Notes: Edited by William E. Galt, et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 1958. 615 pp.

The author of these letters was a founder of The American Psychoanalytic Association (1911) and became its president in 1925. Introduced by Brill to both Freud and Jung, Trigant Burrow, with the encouragement of Adolf Meyer, undertook a year of study with Jung, in Küsnacht. Although one of the first to bring psychoanalysis to America and to engage in its practice, when the Association was reorganized in 1933 his application for membership in the New

York Psychoanalytic Society was rejected. The reason for this action is given as follows: 'Since the early days of your interest in psychoanalysis, this science has been developed in certain ways that accentuate the divergence which now exists between its present status and your present views' (p. 268). Thus, under the bylaws of that day, he lost his membership in the Association. In 1949, he wrote Clarence Oberndorf as follows: 'I was greatly pleased and flattered … as an ex-President of the American Psychoanalytic Association … to be the recipient of the Abraham A. Brill Memorial Medal'.

At the time this honor was offered Dr. Burrow he had been for sixteen years an outcast of organized psychoanalysis. His old friends, Oberndorf, Adolph Stern, and others, no longer understood his scientific ideas or aims. Although he felt keenly the loss of his former 'rather lively contact with my psychoanalytic confrères … [at] the regular meetings twice a year of the American Psychoanalytic Association …', there was no bitterness. Through all the years between his early activitie as a psychoanalyst and the time of his rejection by the New York Society, and on to the end of his days Trigant Burrow acknowledged Freud's work as his inspiration and regarded his own studies as having 'inherent continuity' with Freud's discoveries.

Burrow was born in Norfolk, September 7, 1875, the youngest of four children. The volume's Biographical Notes tell us that his father was 'a wholesale druggist', a Protestant, who 'was said to be the