This work of Pfister's is the most ambitious attempt which has been made to thoroughly present the whole psychoanalytic movement, particularly in its therapeutic aspect, in the light of personal experience. Psychoanalysis as theory and practice is considered in its various ramifications and details and the points illustrated by a rich collection of case material. Like all large comprehensive works it might be criticized here and there, but taken as a whole it is a monumental work for which we are indebted both to the author and in some respects even more to the translator, because the task of rendering such a treatise into English is tremendous.

The author is not a physician, but a pastor and a pedagogue and his primary interests radiate from these two viewpoints. His cases, therefore, are naturally largely among children or young adults. To those who see the psychoanalytic movement a moral menace this work ought to serve as an enlightenment, showing as it does the minister and the teacher going among his people and his children helping them in their