Some twenty years ago a comparatively unknown physician in California wrote a definitely inspiring book titled “Outwitting our Nerves.” It was a pioneer work in psychotherapy and was of great service to a large number of sick as well as well people. It achieved renown on its merits and still remains a sound healthy book for the distraught and harassed.

Its value lay chiefly in the fact that Dr. Jackson had understood and applied in popular and readable form some of the more readily applicable of the Freudian conceptions; gave them a worthy literary setting and thereby did psychotherapy and psychoanalysis a service.

Had it been a bit smaller it would have been a member of the Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series, as both editors welcomed