This volume is the first of a series on affect by psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and humanists. Part I is an account of new ideas regarding affect generated by infant and child observation in articles by Daniel Stern, Eugene Mahon, Stanley Greenspan, and Myron Hofer. Stern presents a convincing differentiation of the satisfaction of need, which he associates with libido theory, and joy in response to an other, better accounted for, he believes, by object relations theory. Mahon suggests that transference is the adult equivalent of the play of childhood and that affects are particularly prone to “come out of hiding” in these play modes. Greenspan uses the substages of his own developmental structuralist model to trace the way individuals organize their experience of pleasure and sexuality.

Though Hofer's article is included in Part I, it seems to fit better with articles in Part II on mind-brain questions by Donald Nathanson, Andrew Schwartz, and Norman Doidge. I would like to