The contemporary trends and divisions within the English schools of psycho-analysis are brought into sharper focus with Guntrip's book on Personality Study and Human Interaction. The author himself is a devoted partisan of W. R. D. Fairbairn. Nevertheless he undertakes to place his views as well as those of his contemporaries in a historical perspective which is of great interest. His point of departure is of course the teachings of Freud, from which he traces in turn the evolution of Klein and the position