The book is composed of eleven chapters which attempt an evaluation of Freud's outstanding contributions composing the main body of psychoanalytic theory. Deviants and deviations from Freud's ideas and pronouncements are brought into the foreground, with an emphasis that will not be particularly pleasing to the still dominant Freudian school. While critical students should certainly agree that efforts to extend the knowledge of the fundamentals of human behavior beyond the borders of that attained by Freud and his pupils are desirable, it is still not clear what the more recent “deviants” have accomplished. In fact it is gradually becoming the concensus that neither “orthodox” Freudians nor the “deviants” have made any particularly important additions to psychiatric knowledge during the