Abrahamsen and Palm present the case of a twenty-one-year-old man who, because of certain antisocial behavior, required treatment. The entire family was investigated by personal interviews and Rorschach examination. This approach led the authors to a 'new evaluation of the offender, both with regard to the nature of the delinquency, and to his treatment'. The theoretical reasoning to justify their conclusions is vague since much is implicit as though the reader were already familiar with the six papers by Abrahamsen referred to in the text and bibliography. Perhaps it is this vagueness of theoretical reasoning which gives the reviewer the impression that the authors are building a rather loosely jointed therapeutic theory of their own which marries sociological, practical, dynamic and personal concepts without regard to scientific accuracy. These comments do not invalidate the approach used which could be easily justified both pragmatically and heuristically.