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In Finch's words this textbook 'is an outgrowth of the author's teaching experience at Temple University School of Medicine and the University of Michigan School of Medicine, over the past ten years'. It offers a sound approach to the teaching of psychoanalytic child psychiatry to medical students. The author has obviously thought through the problems involved in preparing a textbook of child psychiatry suitable for many different levels of learning and experience in this field. He states, 'Since it would be impossible to write a textbook of child psychiatry appropriate both to the beginning and advanced student, the decision was made to present the material in a simplified fashion aimed at giving the new student in medicine, psychology, social work, pediatrics, and nursing a broad base for subsequent more specialized courses'. Finch has accomplished just that, and his book presents to the beginning student of child psychiatry a basic knowledge for understanding the emotional disorders of children from the psychoanalytic point of view.
A little over a decade ago, the publishers of the present volume published Emotional Disorders of Children, by G. H. J. Pearson, also based on experiences of teaching medical students at the Temple University Medical School. Since both books have roots in the