This is a resounding critique of the process by which psychoanalysis has been institutionalized, at the cost of compromise and forfeiture of its scientific goals. These compromises include some embarrassing and unfortunate ones made by Freud himself—not only his treatment of independent thinkers among his followers, but even opportunistic political ones vis-à-vis the military during World War I with respect to the treatment of war neuroses, and with the National Socialist regime concerning the Berlin Institute. Cremerius has made a detailed study of the documents relating to these events and feels that the compromises that developed, with their emphasis on the end justifying the means, reflect generally on the development of psychoanalysis as an institution.