his and white's "diseases of the nervous system: a text-book of neurology and psychiatry" (1915, 6th edition 1933) was a standard period textbook that was also the first american textbook to devote substantial space to psychopathology and psychoanalysis (all of part three in the first edition dealt with "psychic or symbolic systems"). jelliffe's 1918 "the technique of psychoanalysis" was the first book in any language explicitly devoted to analytic technique. not an important theoretician in any of the fields in which he practiced, jelliffe was significant more as a behind-the-scenes mover, especially through his translations and the serials that he owned and edited.