This book is a collection of papers relating to parent - infant work loosely pulled together under four broad headings. Each section is prefaced by a short editorial commentary, followed by six or seven papers, which ostensibly fit into the general theme of the heading. These include some recent as well as older ‘classical’ contributions by Winnicott, Trevarthen, Fraiberg and Bourne and Lewis. Tronick has re-visited his paper ‘Emotions and emotional communication in infants’, revising