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Franz Alexander, a multilingual internationalist, was always deeply interested and well-informed on social and political developments. As the first graduate of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, he saw the progress of psychoanalysis from its early stages. And as a leader with broad contacts, he was part of its growth to the present. Besides being abreast of their work, Alexander was personally acquainted—often close friends—with most of the leaders not only in psychoanalysis and psychiatry but in all the related fields. This lends an unusual authenticity to his story of developments since World War I in all aspects of the physical and group methods and investigations, as well as the individual. In Dr. Selesnick he had an invaluable assistant. The result is a book which very few men could have authored. It is a masterpiece of condensation, using to the full one of Alexander's chief talents, namely, the capacity to penetrate to
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