By Jerome Kagan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1981, 163 pp., $15.00.

This interesting book that provides observations of children and explanations of their behavior which, to a great extent, support certain analytic constructs about the development of self-representations. This volume may not be every analyst's cup of tea; it requires considerable effort to cope with the author's often stilted style, to exercise one's critical capacities, and to coordinate Kagan's findings and analytic