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This volume begins and ends with references to the outstanding contributions of the late Seymour L. Lustman. A 'compassionate master clinician', in Albert J. Solnit's words, his major study centered on early and later impulse regulation, and his great concern was the methodology of research. Julius B. Richmond, who co-authored with Lustman several papers on the autonomic endowment of infants, describes the development of Lustman's interests, from research to his later involvement in medical education. A listing of his papers and his posthumous paper, A Perspective on the Study of Man, testify to his great erudition and to his broad interest in the development of man from birth through his entire life span. His knowledge of philosophy and the biological sciences as well as of psychoanalysis made him uniquely qualified to deal with 'the problem of how to bring together the isolated, but useful facets of man learned by the many differing disciplines' (p. 45).
The section of the volume titled Problems of Development—Adolescence begins with Lustman's paper, Yale's Year of Confrontation. As a master of a college in Yale, he was right in the midst of Yale's crisis of student unrest and he concluded with disarming simplicity after this year of turmoil: 'Adolescence as a developmental phase still exists'. Calvin Settlage's paper, Cultural Values and the Superego in Late Adolescence, traces the development of the superego from its precursors in transitional phenomena in infancy to the last phase of adolescence. The adolescent's greatest difficulty is the gap between his ego and his ego ideal. He must lower the aspirations of an unrealistically high ego ideal (a successor of his idealego) before he can enter adulthood. Settlage's paper has been an invaluable aid in the study of the development of earliest forms of acquisition of social and cultural values, in which the reviewer is currently engaged. Peter Blos, Sr., in The Epigenesis of the Adult Neurosis, shows conv