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Lamenting the ignorance of psychoanalysis in Latin countries the author has tried to make a comprehensive yet concise exposition of the present state of psychoanalysis, and he has succeeded. He is an enthusiastic admirer of this method of psychotherapy, has read widely about it in English, German and French, and explains it skilfully and clearly. The list of his other publications on the subject shows that for five years he has been busily spreading a knowledge of psychoanalysis in the medical and psychological circles of South America, and is now turning his attention also to the mother country, Spain.
There are five chapters on the following subjects: the ontogeny of the sexual instinct, and the formation and content of the subconscious according to the psychoanalytic conception, exposition of the mechanism of the neuroses and certain psychoses, the technic of their treatment, criticism of Freud's doctrines with suggestions for modification (theories of Jung and Adler), and an interpretation of psychodynamics. In the last chapter he tried to give a behavioristic or objective explanation.
His personal experience with psychoanalysis, he says, is limited to