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This volume ushers in a new Annual in the field of Child Study, written exclusively from the psychoanalytic point of view. Important as it is in itself, its long range value will be in proportion to its ability to stimulate research in this relatively unexplored field.
A review profitable for students would include a review of each of the six sections by specialists in the specific field. The coverage given here to the individual papers is based on the reviewer's special interests and limitations rather than on the merits of the contributions and should serve as a basis for supplementary, detailed reviews.
In the first section on Genetic Problems, the paper by Heinz Hartmann and Ernst Kris, The Genetic Approach in Psychoanalysis, is important in content, Olympian in style, and too economically written. Its purpose is twofold: to defend the genetic approach of psychoanalysis from the criticisms of the deviationist schools of psychoanalysis and from the academic psychologists (Kurt Lewin, among others); and to point out lacunæ in the genetic approach, as well as the need for verification of certain genetic propositions which have long been taken for granted by analysts. There are cross-references to succeeding papers which bear on points raised in this paper, thus partially filling the need for an introductory chapter to the volume.
Dr. Greenacre's paper, The Biologic Economy of Birth, discusses