Our Children in a Changing World. An Outline of Practical Guidance: By Erwin Wexberg, M.D. with Henry Fritsch. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1938. 232 pp.

The purpose of this book as stated in the introduction is to provide 'parents and teachers with a concise review of the most common problems of childhood development, and of their solution by modern educational psychology'. It is an exposition of the concepts of individual psychology since, according to the authors, 'this science has produced the most satisfactory results wherever its principles have been applied to the problems of childhood development'. The first half of the volume is designated as general problems, in which is expounded Alfred Adler's theory of an 'inferiority feeling' as the exclusive cause of neurotic and behavior difficulties. The various factors responsible for the development of this feeling of inferiority are discussed in terms of the family constellation, that is, the inferiority feeling of the only child, of the oldest child, of the middle child, and of the youngest child. Organ inferiority, Adler's first thesis, returns in this book as one of the etiological factors in the production of inferiority feeling, although it is neglected in the discussion of the mentally retarded children when the authors state that one should 'treat them as though they were mentally of normal intelligence, but discouraged and backward only in their training'. Certain general child guidance concepts also find their way into the content of the division on general problems where the authors discuss the harmful effects of overly strict discipline, overprotectiveness, nagging, rejection and so forth, but these parental attitudes