In 1966 Dr. Sherfey, a psychiatrist on the staff of Cornell Medical School, attempted a correlation of the work of Masters and Johnson with psychoanalysis. The article that resulted from her work was published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.1 This book poses the same challenges to basic psychoanalytic theory as her article, and it remains for psychoanalysis to answer some of the important questions raised by Sherfey. A reviewer can do nothing more than touch on some of her provocative conclusions and interesting speculations.

In this book, the first of a projected two-volume work entitled The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality, Sherfey states that she will concentrate 'on the nature, and meanings of several recent developments in biological and medical research on human sexuality … [touching] on the relationships between men and women and on religion and philosophy' (p. 3). Volume II will describe