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This little work of Bjerre's is most refreshing. It is a presentation of psychoanalysis from the point of view of the author backed up by wide and varied experience. His hitching up of Kant with the psychoanalytic movement may not be particularly convincing, but it is at least interesting, as is also his consideration of the part played by Feuchters-leben, and more particularly by Wetterstrand. In the consideration of the contributions of Wetterstrand, Bjerre takes occasion to discuss the matter of hypnosis, and gives it a very much more important position in psychotherapy than is usual in these days. Perhaps it were well to consider the author's attitude in this matter and not be too sure that the value of hypnosis has been entirely superseded.
Bjerre is perfectly free to disagree with Freud in a number of things, but his disagreement is plainly stated and supported by reasons, and free from the type of dialectics which one is accustomed to see in the literature of the anti-psychoanalysts. In fact the reviewer can recall no other critique of Freud in English which is written in such a judicial attitude of mind, free from affect overloading, and which therefore demands the