Psychoanalysis—A General Psychology. Essays in Honor of Heinz Hartmann: Edited by Rudolph M. Loewenstein, Lottie M. Newman, Max Schur, and Albert J. Solnit. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1966. 677 pp.

This volume, published on the occasion of Hartmann's seventieth birthday, includes over thirty papers, a preface, a poem written in Hartmann's honor by one of his sons, and a chronologically arranged bibliography of Hartmann's publications from 1917 to 1964 inclusive. An introductory biographical paper by Ruth and K. R. Eissler presents an impressive picture of Hartmann as a person and scientist.

The papers in the main body of the volume are grouped into six parts: The Man and His Work, History of Psychoanalysis, Aspects of Normal and Pathological Development, Contributions to Psychoanalytic Theory, Clinical Problems, and Correlations and Applications of Psychoanalysis. Some of the papers, those by Anna Freud, Benjamin, and Weiner, for instance, are concerned specifically with evaluation or elucidation of Hartmann's ego psychological concepts. In Anna Freud's paper, the focus of the discussion is on the relationship between Hartmann's ego psychology and child analysis. In some of the other papers the focus is on the application of Hartmann's concepts or, more generally, of the concepts of psychoanalytic ego psychology to various areas such as old age (Bibring), post-traumatic amnesia (Deutsch), dreaming and sexuality (Fisher), and work (Jahoda). Fisher's paper, in which he reports evidence in support of the proposition that 'dreaming in the male is accompanied, on a physiological level, by massive sustained genital excitation', is the only paper in the volume which presents new experimental data; the other papers make an equally significant contribution in terms of theoretical and clinical thinking. In this connection one should mention a few outstanding examples: Stein, Loewenstein, and Spiegel on the superego and the paper by Spitz on Metapsychology in Dormant Infant Observations. It is, of course, not possible to do justice within the scope of this review to each of the contributions to this volume. This is regret-table because many are of high quality a