Only some learned psychoanalysts—such as Dr. Weisman—would have been able to write this book; still fewer would have taken the trouble to do so. Written with verve and forcefulness and elaborately reasoned with subtle arguments, its pages are the outcome of ardent and intensive work. The book has a well-selected and extensive bibliography.

After reading the first few chapters, which successfully and soberly present the broad lines of the psychoanalytic approach and subject matter, together with its parallels in some other systems of human thought, the reader is bound to feel that Dr. Weisman has contributed a book in which he presents psychoanalysis as if