The title of this book promises the reader a discussion on the timely subject of culture and personality, but the book itself leaves the reader worn and irritated. Drawing from experiences in a juvenile clinic, the author permits himself excursions into a field in which he has inadequate preparation. He brings to his task a series of amorphous, poorly wrought and antiquated working principles, together with an unusual confidence in them and in the ignorance of the reader.

With regard to his working ideas, we can let the author speak for himself. He has a way of inventing new words to convey familiar meanings; for example, for the world 'security' he uses the word 'belongingness'. Introversion and extraversion apparently occupy a high place in his armamentarium of working ideas. 'All babies, [even in New England], are extraverted. If you stick a pin into a baby it immediately sets up a how!' (p. 114.) Apparently an introvert would not howl. So much for extraversion! As for dynamics, Dr. Plant seems to believe that lack of opportunities for