In the summer of 1965, my paleontological colleague, Bryan Patterson, was in charge of a Harvard expedition working near the shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. At a locality called Kanapoi, while he was searching in deposits believed to be of the early Pleistocene the last geological epoch before the present, he picked up an important fossil. The broken lower end of a left humerus the upp...

Although the author repeatedly emphasizes his points of disagreement with orthodox Freudian doctrine and very briefly mentions the existence of other schools of thought and types of psychotherapy, he appears to recommend analysis as the cure for everything from the mildest to the most severe psychological problems. Besides being unnecessary and inadvisable, it is also unpracticable as very few ...