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Glover, E. Theory of Suggestion.—In earlier days it was necessary to pay attention to the theoretical significance of non-analytic psychotherapy especially as the popular statement was that ‘psychoanalysis was nothing more than camouflaged suggestion.’ Most of the discussion on the “resolution of transference” afforded a rough but serviceable distinction between analytic and other therapeutic methods. One is, however, periodically stimulated to reconsider the relations between different forms of psychotherapy, especially when new advances in analytic knowledge force the question, Just what happened to patients before this fresh knowledge was available? Probably much of recent theory does not affect the analytic procedure. It is true that distinctions of Super-Ego, Ego and Id resistances have been made but reductions of resistances as such have always been sought irrespective of their labels. Still a problem emerges as to the relation between inexact and exact interpretations. Here standards of cure have been changing. At first more satisfied with symptomatic cure, later broader and deeper and