Miss Taft, a psychologist who is Supervisor of the Foster Home Department of the Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania, describes in detail what occurred during interviews with two children. She gives, in addition to the verbatim material of the interviews, her own interpretations and the theoretical implications. The book opens with a consideration of the 'time element' in therapy and closes with a short discussion of the forces that make for therapy, but the major portion consists of case material. One is grateful for the preponderance of direct production from the patients, ior the clarity with which the therapist's own reactions are described, and for the absence of abstractions. Her infrequent personal comments are found as brief footnotes and her interpretations are grouped in separate sections.