This is an exceedingly difficult book to review, first, because of its content, and second because of the author's basic philosophy. To review it adequately would require a small monograph assuming the reviewer was sufficiently competent. I will, therefore, give merely some general impressions and evaluations.

As is well known, Otto Rank was one of the earliest and most outstanding of the lay pupils of Freud. He was a Viennese Ph.D., and always interested in the application of psychoanalytic theory to the