The latest volume of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child brings a variety of papers ranging, as usual, from worthwhile to most important. Only a selection of the twenty-one papers can be discussed in a review.

John Bowlby's Grief and Mourning in Infancy and Early Childhood, discussed by Anna Freud, Max Schur, and René Spitz, is a major contribution to the nature-nurture controversy. The four authors in general agree on the importance and the phenomenology of early separation of mother and child but its developmental