A delightfully written book, full of wholesome thinking, but unfortunately based upon the psychotherapeutic principles of Coué, which, while they may lead to highly desirable conduct, are scientifically without adequate foundation. (See Letter of Dr. Glueck's in  Psychoanal. Rev. of January 1923.) One closes the book with the feeling of how little is really known about psychotherapy; how little the psychotherapeutic component of all treatment is appreciated; and how at the mercy of the physician the average patient is, without any measuring rod for determining the value of a suggested line of treatment.

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