Adolescent Psychiatry. Developmental and Clinical Studies, Vol. 6: Edited by Sherman C. Feinstein and Peter L. Giovacchini. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979, x + 521 pp., $25.00.

Volume 6 of Adolescent Psychiatry is indeed an extraordinary volume within a remarkable series. The variety and richness of the papers it contains, many of them by noted colleagues, constitutes a special and rare treat. Many have been written by noted colleagues.

The twenty-nine papers are organized in four sections. The first one deals with "General Considerations Regarding Adolescence." John Bowlby's contribution which appears here, titled "Attachment Therapy and its Therapeutic Implications," reviews in some detail the development of the attachment theory, contrasting it with the dependency theory and emphasizing the features of specificity, duration, ontogeny, learning, organization, etc. Bowlby underlines his view that attachment theory can be tested systematically. It incorporates much psychoanalytic thinking, and adopts a number of principles derived from ethology and control theory. He dispenses with the concepts of psychic energy and drives. He finds this model of attachment theory more compatible with neurophysiology and developmental biology and he believes that it conforms well to the criteria of scientific discipline.

In this same section, is Klumpner's "Review of Freud's Writings on Adolescence," which was his Presidential address to the Chicago Society for Adolescent Psychiatry in 1973. Another is P. S. Weesberg's paper in this section "Demographic, Attitudinal and Practice of Adolescent Psychiatrists in the United States," which contains many useful tables that, as the editors of the volume point out, demonstrate that adolescent psychiatry is "well and healthy, thank you very much!"

The second section contains seven papers on "Developmental Issues and the Adolescent Process," including a paper by S. V. Petzel