The Trauma of Birth is a 1924 book by Otto Rank. Sigmund Freud read the manuscript, and according to Richard Webster, seems initially to have welcomed The Trauma of Birth, even writing to Rank to tell him that he would accept the book's dedication to him. Freud's attitude to the book later changed, and he "hovered between praising The Trauma of Birth and reserving severe judgment on it." Other psychoanalysts reacted more harshly, and both Karl Abraham and Ernest Jones expressed opposition to The Trauma of Birth.^[1]