Volume 17, Number 6 · October 21, 1971
Not so Much a Treatment, More a Way of Life
By Charles Rycroft
The Wolf-Man
by the Wolf-Man, edited by Muriel Gardiner, with a Foreword by Anna Freud
Basic Books, 370 pp., $10.00
'In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath,' observed Dr. Johnson; nor, I suppose, is he when writing blurbs, introductions, and forewords, particularly when, as in the present case, the book has been composed in a spirit of reverence. Anyone cursorily inspecting The Wolf-Man by the Wolf-Man would assume that it consisted of an autobiography of an ex-patient of Freud's accompanied by a complementary case history by Freud; and, furthermore, that the autobiographical part would be illuminated by the insights which its author had gained while being analyzed.
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