Publication of Volume X of The Yearbook of Psychoanalysis is anticipated by busy, discriminating psychoanalysts. It brings many important contributions from the thinking and research of gifted physicians. Scrutiny of the chapters inspires the reader who has long appreciated the courageous and often brilliant explorations of members of this field.

Included are excellent articles elaborating the psychodynamics of emotional disease. These cast new light on processes within the personality and have an important place in a review of psychoanalysis. Little is included, however, of some of the new contributions to an expanded view of etiology and pathogenesis.

A yearbook of psychoanalysis that purports to bring together the