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This excellently produced paperback was conceived to mark the seventieth birthday of Jeanne Lampl-de Groot in 1965, and contains contributions by a number of distinguished authors, all of whom acknowledge her influence on their own work and on contemporary psychoanalysis. The majority of the papers included in the volume are in Dutch, a few in German, and one in English. English summaries of the Dutch papers are appended.
The group of theoretical papers in the first section of the book include "Notes on psychoanalysis and science: the concept of structure" by Heinz Hartmann—an elaboration of discussion remarks at the Amsterdam Congress in 1965, a paper by Willi Hoffer on the theory of defence, one by P. J. van der Leeuw on Freud's theory-formation and a contribution by H. J. van der Waals on narcissism.
The second section consists of two papers: "Splitting of the ego as the central phenomenon of neurosis" by R. le Coultre and Anna Freud's "On losing and being lost". A paper by P. C. Kuiper on transference and countertransference follows, and this is followed in turn by a group of four papers on clinical psychiatry. These are "Diagnostics, clinical psychiatry and psycho-analysis" by W. K. van Dijk, "The psychiatrist and death" by E. C. M. Frijling-Schreuder, "Some remarks on psychogenic disturbances of learning" by Th. Hart de Reuter, and a paper by N. Treurniet on the psychoanalytic theory of psychosis.
The final sections of the book contain a paper by H. Kits van Heijningen on the indications for admission to a medical day care centre, one on unhappy love in adolescence by D. J. de Levita, and papers by E. Isaac-Edersheim on "Adaptation" and A. Mitscherlich on the social and personal ego.
All the papers are of a high quality and several extremely important. The collection represents an impressive contribution to the literature of psychoanalysis but it is unfortunate that most of the contributions—many of which are published for the first time—are in Dutch. It i