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The publication of this paper was arranged by K. R. Eissler. In it, Dr. Marius Tausk, physician and professor of endocrinology, defends his father who, he feels, has been the victim of inaccuracies in recent writings by Eissler and Kanzer. He is particularly perturbed by Eissler who accused his father of being a heartless, self-centered man, a coward and a lifelong deserter. On the contrary, Dr. Tausk avers, his father, despite great suffering, maintained his courage and integrity and showed deep affection and a strong sense of responsibility for his family. The son acknowledges that he was the subject of his father's article, A Contribution to the Psychology of Child Sexuality, as Kanzer concluded, but he rejects Kanzer's hypothesis that the case history in his father's paper, On the Psychology of the Alcoholic Occupation Delirium, was autobiographical. He also rejects Kanzer's theories about his father's selection of names for his brother and himself, insisting that they were chosen by his mother. In addition, Dr. Tausk resents Roazen's characterization of his paternal grandmother as a masochistic Jewish mother, but credits him with correctly stating his mother's motives in giving him the name Marius. He asserts that when Roazen presented him with the hypothesis that a proximal cause for his father's suicide was rejection by Freud, he was initially incredulous but found the story far more convincing than he had anticipated.