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The editor of this new series, Dr Humberto Nagera, tells that the aim is to provide samples of 'scholastic research work carried out at the Hampstead Child-Therapy Course and Clinic relating to the study of a large number of pre-selected basic psychoanalytic concepts postulated and developed by Freud in his psychoanalytic writings, spanning the time from his earliest to his latest conceptualizations'. The editor and his co-workers have given in these two volumes clear summaries of Freud's theories.
Their own account, amply illustrated by quotations from Freud, is diligently cross-referred to all the relevant data relating to the concept concerned in Freud in the Standard Edition. This makes these volumes a useful handbook for both students and research workers. Miss Anna Freud, however, in her foreword attributes a larger and more welcome aim to the series: 'The series of publications of which the present volume forms a part, will be welcomed by all those readers who are concerned with the history of psychoanalytic concepts and interested to follow the vicissitudes of their fate through the theoretical, clinical and technical writings of psychoanalytic authors.' The first two volumes restrict themselves to the writings of Freud. If the editor-authors follow Miss Freud's plan and give some indication of the research relating to the concepts discussed since Freud and by other authors, it would add immeasurably to the value of the series.