The title of this book leads one to expect an encyclopedic volume until one notices that the total number of pages is 148, which includes four pages of references. It is a posthumous presentation of the views of Fritz Morganthaler, who combined anthropological observations with psychoanalytic perspectives in his work. One of Morganthaler's overriding concerns is that an analysis must not be a declaration of war against a patient's perversion. He believes that the objective of analyzing transference and countertrans-ference is to achieve a relaxed hour and that whenever the hour is disturbed again, one must find out what has happened in the transference-countertransference situation and restore the peace of the situation. The author repeatedly warns against the attempt to analyze a perversion. He describes the treatment of a sadistic pervert that ended tragically, and his sense of personal regret about the outcome seems to have strongly influenced his views.