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In this collection of three essays, Eissler examines the “underbrush” (p. 252) of human injustice, three ordinary examples of the wrongs that are “unavoidable” (p. 252) in any society. Two of the essays focus on the world of psychoanalysis. One is a detailed refutation of Jung's claim in a 1957 interview that Freud's sister-in-law, Minna Bernays, had revealed to Jung some 50 years earlier that she and Freud were having an intimate relationship during the time she was living in the Freud family home. The other denies statements made about Eissler in two recent biographies of Freud and Anna Freud and discusses the technical problems presented when a patient learns of such “unbridled confabulations” (p. viii) about his analyst. The third essay, which appears first in the book, examines how the legal system not only fails at times to curb injustice, but even exacerbates it. Eissler uses as an example the case of Dr. Elizabeth Morgan, who spent more than two years jailed for contempt rather than reveal the whereabouts of her young daughter to the