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When for the purpose of writing a review I started to read The Significance of Infant Observational Research for Clinical Work …, I was prepared to labor at my usual modest pace of reading, fairly well prepared to react to, cogitate, agree and disagree, learn and question. I went well beyond that. I spent much more time than I expected, dug deeper than I thought I would, mulled longer and more obsessively than I wanted, and learned more than I had anticipated. Even though I labored in my report, I enjoyed the voyage. This small book is a collection of presentations and discussions on what the title states clearly; it is a coffre of ideas, is informing and lively. A number of questions are taken up, including the titular question of the book, but also important peripheral ones. A rich range of points of view is presented. I shall take some of these up in turn.
All the contributors except one (Meissner, the self-declared devil's advocate) agree that recent infant observational research contributes