Although daunting because of its bulk the present volume, like its predecessors, does not make heavy demands on the reader because all the papers are well-written and the print is clear and large. But this is not to say that one could swallow the contents wholesale, uncritically. Before proceeding, I should like to remind readers that they cannot dispose of these collections on the grounds that they are only of interest to those who work with children. Most of what we find here is of fundamental interest to all analysts and psychotherapists in general.

It is interesting to see how the editors, confronted with a mixed bag, subdivide the content. There are twenty-one contributions in all. One, the first, is rightly put into a