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For many years there have been presented in the American literature many critical summaries, digests, or discussions of the studies of European workers. The return compliments have been comparatively few, especially in the field of psychiatry. It is therefore all the more gratifying that the following critical discussion of some of Dr. Jelliffe's contributions to this discipline has been offered by an Italian confrere and published in a special journal devoted to schizophrenia. To the original author all the more pleasing since Dr. Chiabov was unknown to his American confrere.
The translation reads as follows:
“Smith Ely Jelliffe relates how bit by bit there came to form within him the awareness of psychoanalysis; how, led by his personal experiences and through contact with various schools, the importance of psychotherapy in medicine became ever clearer to him.
He has been in Europe many times, in close association with the most famous clinicians, especially with Kraepelin, whose friend he became and of whom he records having had, in the last years of the life of the great German psychiatrist, much discussion upon the significance and development of psychoanalysis.
The author has now developed so perfect a consciousness of psychoanalysis, and an intellect so completely equipped, that all the problems which are inherent in medicine, together with the general story of its development, are comprehended by him and interpreted from this point of view. He is a writer full of vigor, with a vast erudition which, proceeding from the field of general medicine to apprehend the historical, literary, and philosophical fields, results always in finding a method to develop his hypotheses, nourishing them with facts and with conceptions both original and fascinating.2