This book attempts to throw light on various aspects of the parent-child relationship and its influence on the teacher-pupil and counselor-client relationships. The author is well acquainted with the writings of Freud and his followers as witnessed in his introductory chapter, Some Basic Concepts. Also, in the last two chapters devoted to a discussion of the pupil-teacher and counselor-client relationship, the many quotations taken from the psychoanalytic literature show sympathy with, and at least an intellectual acceptance of that approach.

For this reason, the main body of the book is the more disappointing. Apparently it is an attempt to coördinate the academic psychological approach and the deeper insight gained by psychoanalysis. However, the latter is fairly well lost by the wayside in a maze of statistics and an effort to gather sufficient quantitative evidence to make the findings valid.

The greater part of the book describes an investigation by the