Psychoanalytic history has become increasingly attractive to a variety of behavioral scientists and in all likelihood 'psychohistorical' studies of Freud and his students will become even more appealing to a new generation of sociologists, political scientists, and historians. Paul Roazen is an excellent representative of this 'new breed'. His book entitled Freud: Political and Social Thought (Knopf, 1968) was an exciting sociopolitical exposition of the context in which psychoanalysis developed. While working on this earlier manuscript and preparing a 'broader account of Freud, his patients, and his pupils', Roazen came upon a story that fascinated him. He attempted to unravel its apparently mysterious aura by uncovering new data and engaging in deductive 'detectivework'. The mystery involved the story of Tausk and his relationship to Freud. Roazen was led to believe that a collective repression barrier had been erected by psychoanalysts around Tausk and he became eager to life the barrier. The book, Brother Animal,