In the concluding sentence to this beautiful book, Ana-Maria Rizzuto writes: “Freud's religious theories can be read as an unintended psychobiography of his private and unwitting transformation into a ‘godless Jew”’ (p. 271). Her investigation into Freud's journey from a childhood home that was permeated with God's presence to an atheistic adulthood is most novel and thorough. Utilizing an object-relations theoretical framework, Rizzuto traces the possible origins of Freud's ideas about religion to the crucial vicissitudes of his childhood. Taking minute clues revealed by Freud in his letters and writings, Rizzuto describes