The author makes skillful use of his own clinical material and conceptualizations to point up the dynamics and understanding of the supernatural and cults relative to adolescent problems. This is preceded by an excellent review of the literature. Olsson summarizes what he feels to be Freud's belief that the supernatural preoccupations of our patients can be seen in terms of the return of repressed affects. The thoroughness of this article is well demonstrated by references to Mahler's work on the rapprochement stage of separation-individuation and to Kernberg's work to help us understand the phenomena of the supernatural. A more difficult area to understand is the attempt to fit Kohut's concepts into these dynamic explanations. In general, this article is extremely useful, not only in the collating and elaborating of the data, but also in the author's creative thoughts in regard to the understanding of the supernatural and occult phenomena.