Dust jacket notes: "For the past fifteen years, John Morris Dorsey, M.D., has occupied the chair of Wayne State University's first University Professor. His advanced educational experience begun at the University of Iowa from 1918 to 1928 and continuing at the University of Michigan from 1928 to 1938, included two years of sabbatical study at the University of Vienna and the Viennese Psychoanalytic Institute. During this latter study period, Dr. Dorsey kept a journal, oriented mostly around his exciting mental growth, associated with his discovery of the rare power of the one and only psychoanalytic rule, namely, free association. All of Dr. Dorsey's scientific works have been purposefully of autobiographical nature. In this volume he provides the key to understanding the consistently personal style of his numerous books and other writings. Using description, narrative, and exposition he accounts for all of his meaningful living in terms of his own psychogenesis (mental development). The close-ups of his chosen self analyst, Professor Sigmund Freud, are rare contributions, detailing Dr Dorsey's sustained efforts to help himself by cultivating his own self-knowledge with this 'peerless scholar of the mind.'"
