I must agree with some of the essential points made by the authors, but it seems to me that some of their criticism is directed on such blatant misconceptions of psychoanalysis that they hardly deserve repudiation in a professional journal and would rather find their place in a more popular or literary magazine.

On the other hand, I am in full agreement with the comments offered by the authors concerning the invasion of the field of psychotherapy by the elements of the irrational. However, I would not attribute this phenomenon to misconceptions of the psychoanalysts who, especially since the development of ego psychology, have never