The Leaven of Love

presents a highly sympathetic and very readable account of Ferenczi's life and departure from Freudian orthodoxy. The book possesses a literary flavour rarely found in more academic text books of psychology. It is apparently aimed at the general, but fairly sophisticated, reader rather than the professional psychotherapist. It will give such a reader a brief introduction to the major concepts of Ferenczi, as seen through the sensitive but uncritical eyes of Mrs. de Forest. It is perhaps a little unfortunate that, despite a superficial discussion of the more obvious Freudian objections to some of Ferenczi's modifications, she does not even begin to evaluate the advantages or the shortcomings of the Ferenczi techniques in an objective manner. This is particularly evident when some of the differences between the psychologies of Freud and Ferenczi are discussed.