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It is noteworthy that these 'Advances' in psychoanalysis were written between the years 1945 and 1959. All of the papers by different authors in this series have been published previously. The two papers by Karen Horney that are included again reveal her talent for describing character traits with great realism.
The book has little to do with psychoanalysis. It does demonstrate the bizarre conclusions that can be reached from a false premise. Harold Kelman for instance implies that Freud considered anxiety 'bad' and the goal of therapy to abolish it. For Muriel Ivimey, Freud's concept of constructive forces in the therapeutic process is limited to the patient's rational faculties and to what is called positive transference in his relations with the analyst. To compound the contradictions, Kelman rejects the world 'holistic' in describing anxiety because it is morally and æsthetically 'value-laden'; nevertheless his subtitle for this book is 'Contributions to Karen Horney's Holistic Approach'.
The psychoanalyst will find little in this book worth reading.