This book has little to offer psycho-analytic readers. It embodies 'the substance of talks and lectures given for some years now to nurses, doctors, teachers, parents, and business people'. It aims at presenting a simple, non-technical 'consistent description of human conduct' personal to the author. Susan Isaacs' The Nursery Years and J. C. Flugel's An Introduction of Psycho-analysis are included in one selected bibliography, but the author's knowledge of psycho-analysis is very slight. However, his attitude to human beings is humane and realistic and could be widely adopted with advantage. His approach to 'persons' has more in common with that of psycho-analysts than he himself realizes.