Transcriber’s Notes Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. Italics are represented thus _italic_. The footnotes have been placed at the end of the book. Excerpts from the Professional Press on the work of DR. WM. STEKEL We have lacked thus far a systematic clinical application of Freudian analysis. Stekel’s work fills this need. _Jung_, in MEDIZ. KLINIK. * * * * * ... A standard work; a milestone in the psychiatric and psycho-therapeutic literature. Geh. Sanitätsrat _Dr. Gerster_, in DIE NEUE GENERATION. * * * * * It would be regrettable if the work did not attract fully the attention of the scientific world; its deep sobriety and the fulness of its details render it a treasury of information, primarily for the physician, but, in large measure, of interest also to the educationist, the minister, the teacher and, not least, to the student of criminology.... _Horch_, in ARCHIV F. KRIMINALOGIE. * * * * * These case histories will be read with great interest by everyone, including those who are inclined to maintain a sceptical attitude towards psychoanalysis. _Eulenburg_, in MEDIZINISCHE KLINIK. * * * * * Stekel’s work teaches practitioners a great many things they did not know before, particularly about the significance of psychology and sexual science in the practice of medicine. _Hitschmann_, in INTERNAT. ZEITSCHRIFT F. PSYCHOANALYSE. * * * * * It is Stekel’s extraordinary merit that he compels us to take into account a pressing mass of data which he brings to light with a scientific zeal which is unfortunately still rare,—facts and observations so penetrating, so true to life that these often render unnecessary any formal statement of the obvious deductions which flow from them. DIE NEUE GENERATION. * * * * * The most modern problems are considered, new viewpoints are brought out, while the excesses in the technique and interpretation of the earlier stages of psychoanalysis are avoided. _Kermauner_, in WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT. * * * * * All in all, Stekel’s is a work for which I bespeak the widest interest not only among physicians, but also among jurists, educationists, sociologists and ministers. Only an understanding of the mental life of the individual will yield a proper view of our social life. _Liepmann_, in ZEITSCHRIFT F. SEXUALWISSENSCH. * * * * * The work is a treasury for all who have occasion to probe the depths of human life and should be a source of considerable information and stimulus to every jurist who takes in earnest his professional duties.