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This volume is subtitled, A System of Self-Help in Psychotherapy as Practiced by Recovery, Incorporated. The contents of the book are in the main reproductions of panel discussions conducted by the ex-patients and group psychotherapy interviews held by the author with his private patients in the years 1944-1949. Several essays on ‘sabotage’ have been added, describing the manner in which the patients offer resistance to the physician's instructions. The bulk of the material was previously published in the ‘Recovery Journal’ and Recovery News, issued by Recovery, Inc., and edited by the author. It deals with a system of group therapy evolved by the writer since 1933. The author believes that life is not driven by instincts but guided by will. He favors the theories of Kraepelin and Wundt to those of Freud.