摘要:Dr. A. A. Brill, after working with Dr. Sigmund Freud in Vienna, returned to the United States in 1908 and introduced psychoanalysis to our medical profession. Although he met with considerable opposition in the beginning, he lived to see psychoanalysis take its place as a valuable method for exploring the human mind. This book, written for laymen, was published originally in 1921 under the title of Basic Principles of Psychoanalysis. Dr. Brill undertook the rewriting of the book a generation later and finished his task a few weeks before his death in i\Iarch, 1948.