This breezy, journalistic little book purports to be a sociological study of the recent enthusiasm for psychoanalysis in France. Although the author makes efforts to place this fad into a broader context by comparing it to the fate of psychoanalysis in America, these speculations fail to inspire confidence because she seems to know little about the field in this country. Although her length of residence in France may not qualify her for the title, she is at least a spiritual expatriate and views her homeland through the distorting