"Elegant in its completeness and accuracy, sweeping in the comprehensive- ness of its historical account of psychoanalytic theory and practice, this latest work of Gertrude and Rubin Blanck presents in addition a number of original viewpoints which should be of stimulating value to the course of continued psychoanalytic progress."

-Nathaniel Ross, M.D.

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