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The author reviews the contributions of the swiss psychoanalyst Paul Parin and his associates to the joint efforts of anthropologists and psychoanalysts to better understand the relationship between culture and individual personality. He focuses this review on the usefulness of cross-cultural studies to the Western clinician and uses Parin and associates' book, Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself, to this purpose. This book summarized a study of the Anyi of West Africa by a group of psychoanalysts employing modified clinical methods in their data gathering. The author comments on