This book is an unusual case history, valuable in several regards. The author recounts her experience as a trainee at a state hospital treating a borderline adolescent. Her tactfully self-revealing account begins with her initial anxieties as a therapist-in-training saddled with responsibility for a severely disturbed adolescent girl. Her patient, Kay, arrived, having failed numerous previous attempts at treatment, with a history of violent and self-destructive outbursts and prostitution, attended by allegations she had sexually abused two preschool children. The author has a gift for rendering complicated material in a clear, well-organized fashion. She faithfully