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In a book directed to the laity, Rudolph Wittenberg has lived up to his title. He seeks to enlighten the educated laity about psychoanalysis as a therapeutic procedure. At the same time he gives some glimpses of psychoanalytic theory, but no more than necessary to accomplish his main purpose of informing a potential patient what may lie ahead in the course of a therapeutic analysis.
Wittenberg starts with the question 'What is psychoanalysis?' and proceeds to discuss free association, the patient-analyst relationship, the patient and his family, and the termination of analysis. He