Dalbiez, Roland. La Méthode Psychanalytique et la Doctrine Freudienne. 2 Vol. Paris:  Desclée De Brouwer & Co.

Monsieur Dalbiez, Doctor of Letters and Agregé in Philosophy, has written in this book a work which is not the exposé of ideas arrived at from reading as are most critical works on psychoanalysis but is instead the fruit of reflections that facts have submitted to his criticism since he arrived at a comprehension of psychoanalysis through a personal experience having, with the coöperation of medical psychiatrists, studied a certain number of cases during a prolonged period of observation. A scientist and a realist, he finds himself approving of Freud's approach but differs with some of his findings. The style is lucid, logical, free flowing and should be easy to follow for the educated layman. We purpose telling his ideas without comment, save to use some that are quite naïvely amusing though in the main of significance.

The first volume attempts complete exposition and revaluation of psychoanalysis. Freud, the author feels, has done much to discredit psychoanalysis by the way he has presented it. First: he has not separated his doctrine from his method so that scientific theories and metaphysical constructions are presented on the same plane as facts. Second: he has not presented his thought in a convincing form. Although in order to establish theses he should have proceeded by accumulation of simple and demonstrative examples, he has instead launched out into interpretations that a critical spirit could only judge as unverifiable. The first