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The present volume represents the last segment of a trilogy put together by these editors as an essentially psychoanalytic view of the development of human personality over the entire course of life. The first volume covered infancy and early childhood; the second included latency, adolescence, and youth. In all cases, a glittering galaxy of internationally known contributors was assembled, led in the first two books by the original contributions of Anna Freud and Erik Erikson. Most of the writers are psychoanalysts, of varying theoretical orientations, while a few distinguished colleagues represent related disciplines.
With a few exceptions that may well represent the vagaries of personal taste or bias, as the case may be, I found the general caliber of the contributions in Volume 3 of unusually high quality and scholarship, rarely found in such a collection. But what was lacking for me was an editorial screening that would have eliminated some papers, however charming, that did not particularly fit the general subject of human development in a given segment of the life span. I also missed some periodic editorial comments that might have compared or contrasted opposing points of view and ventured to suggest the strengths or flaws of the contending philosophies (for example, two different