An original and provocative study of the creator of psychoanalysis, written with humor and understanding. Freud becomes recognizable as a human being, constantly occupied by one case in his entire career - his own. The author ably proves that psychoanalysis is only Freud's own case history, disguised as a contribution to psychiatry, but which has little application to human nature in general. The simplicity and directness in which the pretensions of psychoanalysis are exploded will leave the reader free to study other schools of thought in psychology with firmer scientific foundations.