This delightfully written and entertaining little book has much to recommend it. Aside from the fact that the reader gets an idea that psychoanalysis is a much more simple matter than it really is, and this is true of all of Stekel's offerings, there are many discussions that are very well worth while. Those that strike the reviewer as of particular usefulness are the discussion of suggestion wherein the author is not content with the mere word but is at some pains to inquire into the meaning of the phenomena: and the discussion of the ultimate results of psychoanalysis wherein are cleared up many points and it is shown how any statistical statement of cures and failures must be misleading. The discussion of the resistance and the transfer are also commended for their wholesome suggestiveness. The reasonableness of the optimism of the author in his belief in the curability of homosexuality is, of course, open to question;