Dr. Rivers' untimely death removed from the arena of psychoanalytic controversy the most accomplished and scholarly of Freud's critics. Psychoanalysis has attracted an enormous amount of criticism, but very strangely only in exceptional and rare instances has this criticism come from persons who were both judicially minded and well informed. Dr. Rivers was one of these exceptional individuals and he presents in the present book, which was published posthumously and unfortunately was therefore not carefully revised by him, a careful and detailed criticism of the psychoanalytic viewpoint, particularly that of Freud and his followers,