Those of us who have come to depend on the volumes of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child as essential reading will find Volume VII equally indispensable. It follows the standard of diversity of subject matter, creativeness of research, and excellence of writing and editing. Among the eighteen contributions, many of multiple authorship, the majority are primarily clinical, the case presentations precise and instructive, and several superbly blend clinical data, theory, and technique. The last quality is conspicuous in Margaret Brenman's On Teasing and Being Teased: And the Problem of Moral Masochism.