This volume of Helene Deutsch's papers “has involved bringing together for the first time everything that Helene published psychoanalytically that has somehow remained uncollected in book form,” writes the editor, Paul Roazen, in his long and informative introduction (p. xvi). Such a principle of selection imparts both weaknesses and strengths to this collection.

The papers and lectures, spanning 47 years of publication, are uneven in quality, some sounding cumbersome and dated. But such