Childhood Psychopathology. An Anthology of Basic Readings: Edited by Saul I. Harrison and John F. McDermott. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1972. 903 pp.

This bountiful volume is divided into nine parts, with a large section on development and several that address themselves to various

emotional disorders, including sections on learning disabilities, mental retardation, and brain dysfunction. The editors have selected fifty-five different papers representing almost as many contributors. The wide range of interest of the editors is expressed by their inclusion of historical papers which were milestones in child psychiatry with those representing the advances of recent years.

Psychoanalysts will be interested to note that the first paper in the book, The Innate and the Experiential in Child Development, is by John D. Benjamin. Freud's paper, The Etiological Significance of Sexual Life, Hartmann, Kris, and Loewenstein's Comments on the Formation of Psychic Structure, Anna Freud's The Concept of Developmental Lines and her paper, The Role of Bodily Illness in the Mental Life of Children, are included. In addition, papers by Spitz, Bowlby, Levy, Fraiberg, and Adelson indicate the scope of the volume. The editors have collected those writings that they feel are essential for teaching on the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels; and they present the volume as a reference book. Surely all those who are engaged in teaching will find it useful, as will those who like to have a convenient reference book.

Such an anthology cannot be reviewed in detail, nor would it be advisable to compare one's own preferences among papers on particular subjects with those the editors have selected. As I began to read through this nine hundred and three page book, I felt it would have been advisable for the publishers to have divided it into at least two volumes. In spite of its awkwardness, this large volume is a most welcome publication; its readers will find themselves immediately absorbed in the familiar papers and in those pertaining to their present interests. The classic papers in child psychiatry to be reread in this