Psychoanalysts, and I think with some right, usually consider the investigations of academic psychologists on emotions as sterile. With few exceptions, child psychologists studying the emotional life of children use non-vital situations and the artificial atmosphere of clinic and laboratory. One must not belittle the important contributions of the psychometricians to our knowledge of the intellectual functions. But as Dr. Murphy points out in her book most texts in child psychology are concerned, after the discussion of intelligence levels, with the physical well-being of the child and