Books: Do-It-Yourself Freud

ANALYZE YOURSELF (320 pp.]—Prince Leopold Loewensteln & William Gerhard!—Hawthorn Books ($3.95).

Every highbrow worth his martini nowadays has enough psychoanalytical know-how to trace his best friend's fallen arches back to infantile stresses and strains or to see homicidal tendencies merely as the mask of a basically shy, reticent character. Now, thanks to the appearance of this book, any lowbrow can also learn to take the first fumbling steps towards a total misunderstanding of human nature.

Analyze Yourself first snorkeled in Britain about 20 years ago, looking like a jolly parlor game for rainy nights. "Adapted" for U.S. consumption by Editor Victor Rosen,...

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