On the Bringing up of Children: By Five Psycho-Analysts: Susan Isaacs, Melanie Klein, Merell P. Middlemore, Nina M. Searl, Ella Freeman Sharpe. Edited by John Rickman. (Kegan Paul, London, 1936. Pp. 237. Price 6 s. net.)

The six lectures here reprinted were delivered in public in 1935 and the interest displayed by the audience has led to a widespread demand for the publication of them. They comprise the following:

Dr. Rickman, whose editorial work has evidently been very far from a sinecure, has contributed an interesting preface and a carefully selected bibliography.

Psycho-analysts, when offering the fruits of their study of the Unconscious for application to social problems, have a choice of methods open to them. They can say to the world at large 'Here are the facts, make what practical use you can of them. Our attitude towards all such matters is an unbiassed one, our science is merely science; to offer advice on questions of right or wrong is not within the scope of it'. Or they can do as the writers of these chapters have done—couple their findings with some definite opinions as to what should or should not be done, socially or educationally.

During the early years of research, the more orthodox of English psycho-analysts refrained from expressing opinions of this kind. They felt that the sum of psycho-analytic knowledge was not great enough or definite enough to warrant such expression, and there may be some among them who still feel this to be the more correct attitude.

The recent pressure towards the voicing of opinion probably comes from two directions, an external one, viz. the ever-increasing urgency of social and educational problems manifesting itself in written and verbal requests to the Institute of Psycho-Analysis for public lectures and popular books, and an internal one, the growth of psycho-analytic knowledge during the last few years. This growth has been due in part to research done in the analysis of children, which, in turn, has enriched and th