Gardiner reviews her acquaintance with the Wolf-man, extending over thirty years. Few concrete facts about his life are actually available in the analytic reports by Freud and Ruth Mack Brunswick. Accordingly, Gardiner encouraged the Wolf-man to write about himself. In the current chapter of his Memoirs she finds most striking his concern with the personal, and his relative disregard

for the dramatic events of the world around him. She notes his frequent helpless seeking for advice when in trouble, and she underscores his central interest in understanding his own and others' behavior, which is relatively devoid of judgment or animosity.