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This volume written by eight psychoanalysts, a social psychologist (Toby B. Bieber), and a clinical psychologist (Ralph H. Gundlach), presents a systematic study of one hundred and six male homosexuals and one hundred male heterosexuals in psychoanalytic treatment with eighty-two members of the Society of Medical Psychoanalysts (New York). The data collected in these individual psychoanalyses were subjected to a comparative clinical and statistical study by the authors. Of the homosexual patients treated, sixty were in analysis less than two hundred hours and forty-six received two hundred treatment hours. In the control group of heterosexual cases, forty had less than two hundred treatment hours and sixty were in treatment for at least two hundred treatment hours. A close study of the methods employed by this psychoanalytic research team is certain to be of value to those undertaking similar research.
Psychoanalysts have long been sceptical of information elicited by questionnaires which purport to give a scientific explanation of human motivation and behavior. There is a basic fallacy in attributing