This is the first book dealing with the subject of psychoanalysis in an admittedly and unequivocally popular way. There have been in the last year many books on the various aspects of psychoanalysis, theoretical and applied, but this is the first attempt to put the principles into such shape as would make them readily accessible to the average lay reader. As such we welcome it.

The putting of the psychoanalytic principles in a way to get them over to the average reader is a problem composed of two well-defined parts. In the first place they must be sufficiently clearly stated and free from technical methods of expression so that they can be understood,