"The Whites think too much, and then they do many things; and the more they do, the more they think. And then they earn a lot of money, and when they have a lot of money, they worry that the money might be lost and that they won't have any more. Then they think even more and make even more money and never have enough. Then they are no longer at peace. This is how it comes about that they are not happy." (A village chief from Mali) "The Whites Think Too Much" is a legendary cult book and a scholarly work in one: First published in 1963 and subsequently reissued many times, this book is the first testimony of a scientific method that has influenced the thinking and research of an entire generation of psychoanalysts and ethnologists. The authors undertook a total of six expeditions to Africa to explore the psyche of West Africa using a conversation technique developed from psychoanalysis.