This is a slim book of unusual interest in which Dr. Morgenstern presents clear-cut case material obtained from the analyses of children. She has made a study of the symbolism used by children to express their fantasies in play, dreams, stories, and drawings. After pointing out the parallelism in the 'metalogical' thinking and the power of magic of schizophrenic adults, primitives, and neurotic children in the attempt to gratify wishes which are either impossible or too difficult to gratify in reality, the author summarizes her approach to the problem as follows: 'We have compared the mental processes of children with those of schizophrenics and we consider that autistic thinking is based upon a painful experience, an affective trauma, which alienates the individual from reality. It is perhaps astonishing to find that the child is subject to many affective traumata in his life among adults. He is probably constantly humiliated by comparison with the adult. To be ordered about and obliged to carry out the orders given by adults, and to be unable to do the same things as grown