This volume represents the Salmon Lectures for 1943. In the Preface Dr. Brill says: “This book represents the fruit of more than four decades of close application to psychiatry and thirty-seven years of active participation in the psychoanalytic movement.” He further says: “This work should not, however, be considered a compendium of everything that Freud has produced.” Nonetheless the reviewer would insist that the author has turned out the second best introduction to psychoanalysis that he has seen. Freud wrote an introduction through his living work and so Brill has written one as well. Second best does not mean that one excludes the other; indeed it is conceivable that Brill's, while by no means a popularization, might seem more genial and less involved than that of Freud, especially for the beginner or anyone not entirely certain in theory. The numerous anecdotes on Freud and especially the development of the psychoanalytic movement in America are further recommendations for this compact and authoritative volume by the Dean of Psychoanalysis in America.