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This is an attractive and highly readable Festschrift honoring Dr. Murray on his seventieth birthday. It consists of eighteen essays
by psychologists who were trained by Murray or otherwise strongly influenced by him. Leopold Bellak and Erik H. Erikson are well known as psychoanalysts and psychologists; some of the others have also had psychoanalytic training. Almost all reveal, to some degree, the creative use of psychoanalytic knowledge. Although the contributions vary in literary quality, scientific profundity, and psychoanalytic insight, most will be of some interest to psychoanalysts.
The essays are appropriately grouped under four headings: 1, Growth and Change in Personality; 2, Procedures and Variables for Studying Personality; 3, Creative Processes in Personality; and 4, Values in Personality.
I found the following especially interesting: Bellak's Somerset Maugham: A Thematic Analysis of Ten Short Stories; Robert R. Holt's Two Influences on Freud's Scientific Thought: A Fragment of Intellectual Biography; and the Essays by Nevitt Sanford, Kenneth Keniston, and Robert W. White based on intensive case studies. White's editing of the volume is excellent.