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Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken …
Quoting these lines from ‘On first looking into Chapman's Homer’, Beta Copley states, ‘A love of literature may serve as a conveyor and container of discovery of a new world’ (p. 119). Many reading this book will feel that they are either discovering, or exploring with renewed excitement and insight, a very particular world — that of Adolescence. In a short review it is hard to do justice to this tour de force — poised to stand alongside the classic works on adolescence. It will be profoundly illuminating to anyone involved with this age group, professionals and non-professionals alike, for it offers a comprehensive and scholarly examination of the inner world of the individual adolescent; the nature, function and tasks of the adolescent process; the vicissitudes of the changing relationship between the self and the external world; the ways in which things may go wrong and the kinds of psychoanalytically based help that may be found.