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Marjorie Harley, in her characteristically lucid, modest, and graceful manner, has contributed another valuable addition to the psychoanalytic literature. This edited book represents the successful completion of a companion volume to Elisabeth Geleerd's The Child Analyst at Work1, conceived by Geleerd and barely begun before her untimely death. Thus the bulk of the editor's work was Harley's. This thoughtful endeavor is indeed a worthy tribute to Dr. Geleerd.
It seems appropriate to begin this review with the editor's own introduction. Harley is not one to evade issues, and she explores the subject of the analyzability of adolescents in the light of their developmental processes. Child analysis, in general, has successfully developed through its own stages and amply demonstrated that children and adolescents can be analyzed. The earlier concerns of many analysts were directed at the question of modifications of technique (parameters). In my opinion, child analysts have shown convincingly