Mr. Seed, a teacher in a social work agency, need not have apologized for his difficulties in producing this small, pithy book. In seventy-four pages he describes the complexities that all who wish to do sophisticated peace and war research must clarify. All too often 'psychologizing' promotes equating nations with individuals, which may lead to simplistic solutions or a sense of hopelessness.

Behavioral scientists, particularly those using the important concepts of fantasy and symbolization, will profit from the author's descriptions of the so-called modern state. It is clearly not a homogeneous, well-integrated, well-functioning unit. It is a complex of institutions, official and unofficial, with multiple, often conflicting interests, shifting pressures, contradictory policies and behavior, poorly coördinated and poorly thought out. The author offers the reader many hints on how psychoanalytic knowledge could be put to good use.

One criticism: all bibliographic references in the text should have