Dr. Dunbar has achieved an unusually clear and interesting presentation of dynamic development in a very short text of two hundred eighty-eight pages, a difficult task, even with the short cuts of analytic terminology. She has conveyed the essential psychoanalytic concepts important for child rearing in a very lucid readable manner. The material is not limited to childhood, but gives the adolescent and adult personality traits related to childhood, so that the scope of the book is far broader than might be expected from its title and subtitle.

In fact her book serves as an excellent aid for pediatricians because it illustrates the overdetermination of any given behavior. The arrangement of her chapters gives her a unique opportunity to integrate her data. For example, in the chapter, Does Your Child Sleep, she has integrated the effect of waiting, fears, the state of