This book contains an excellent collection of papers designed to give an overall view of the applications of psychoanalytic theory to various aspects of man in society. The choice of papers is excellent and a number of them are not easily come by in any other way. The editors included papers of their own which are acceptable expositions of the areas they discuss. The other papers are all by well-known contributors to the field of psychoanalysis and represent a good cross section of current psychoanalytic thought. The reviewer's impression is that some of the material in the book is likely to be over the head of lay readers and may perhaps confuse more than it instructs. However, the quality of the essays is high, and the efforts of the editors to be inclusive but not exhaustive seem to the reviewer to have been successful.