100 Years of Psychoanalysis 1893-1993: Contributions to the History of Psychoanalysis edited by André Haynal and Ernst Falzeder Special issue of the “Cahiers Psychiatriques Genevois.” Geneva: Institutions Universitaires de Psychiatrie de Genève. London:  Karnac Books. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1994,  283 pp., $49.95.

Originally presented at a symposium in Geneva in September 1993, the essays in this volume focus on two main topics, “The Early Freud: 1893 and Afterwards” and “Freud and his intimate Sándor Ferenczi.” Despite some excellent essays the collection as a whole disappoints. It has too little cohesion: three of the essays in the first part don't fit the rubric, the concluding commentary by Olivier Flournoy is wildly inappropriate, and the topics range so widely that few readers are likely to be interested in all of them. Most of the papers are brief; many could have benefited from further development. The translations from essays delivered in French and German are at best awkward, and the number of misprints is extraordinary.

The first part includes six essays which I shall mention briefly. Jean Starobinski discusses the history of reaction and abreaction. John Forrester argues that hypnotism may have hidden resistance, as Freud maintained, but provided him with a conception of the forces at play between doctor and patient that allowed him to develop his theory of the relationship between the two, including the theories of resistance and transference. Carlo Bonomi explores the relevance of Freud's pediatric training for the origins of psychoanalysis. After presenting the views on childhood masturbation of Adolf Baginsky, the pediatrician at whose Berlin polyclinic Freud