In this era of edited collections it is a pleasure to read a book in which a single author's line of thought is developed and explicated. Pleasing too are the book's direct style, clear organization, and many useful, illustrative vignettes. If, as the author acknowledges, the book has some of the qualities of a clinical text, this reviewer sees it as the work of a clinician sensitive to the problems of adolescents, alert to their vulnerabilities, able to confront them in useful ways, and endowed with