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It is nearly forty years since the author of this volume, a native Spaniard, began his analytic training in Germany. He returned to Spain on the completion of training to practice analysis in virtual isolation until the Spanish revolution led to his emigration to Paris. Here he remained for less than three years before the rise of the Nazis caused him to leave continental Europe. Since 1939 he has been a leading psychoanalyst in the now flourishing Argentine Society.
During all these changes Garma 'remembered and put to good use Freud's maxim that "dreams are the royal road to the unconscious"'. From this road, happily, he was not parted or deflected by the external changes which give this volume a truly international background. Although some of Dr. Garma's ideas are controversial, he has consistently maintained this central analytic proposition. His discussion is illustrated by vivid clinical examples, including many drawings produced by his patients.
The first five chapters of this book reproduce in essence a volume first published in Spanish in 1940. Dr. Garma wrote his thesis on dream interpretation to qualify in Buenos Aires. This was the first textbook on this subject to appear in Spanish. It is a clear and