This is a book for specialists in Freud studies. It consists of eight lengthy essays and 29 review articles. Twenty-five of the reviews average about a page in length. The volume takes as its theme the idea that “the history of psychoanalysis has been too exclusively centered on Freud…. To achieve a more balanced view, it is necessary to take account of the ideas of his dissenting followers and forgotten adversaries” (p. ix).

Paul Roazen, in the book's opening essay, suggests one reason why Freud's adversaries have been forgotten. He writes, “Not only did those Freud stigmatized as heretics do little publicly to fight back, but their supporters did not have the same sense of history as Freud and his own loyal friends” (p. 6). Freud, undoubtedly one of the world's great marketing geniuses, was intent on mythologizing