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THE PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY OF SOCIETY Volume 19: Essays in Honor of George A. De Vos edited by L. Bryce Boy er, Ruth M. Boy er, and Howard F. Stein Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 1994, xxvi + 364 pp., $45.00
The 19th and final volume of PSS honors George A. De Vos, who pioneered the cross-cultural application of projective tests, with appreciative chapters by the Boyers and Suárez-Orozco and two by De Vos. Other contributions include work on Freud and Hasidism, a study of the Finnish religion of Laestadianism, Freudian and Jungian thought in India, the development of Chinese and Japanese personality characteristics, and other scholarly papers.
It is a sad day when any journal or venerable series such as this ends publication and we are all in the debt of Bryce and Ruth Boyer for what they have achieved and contributed to the social sciences and psychoanalysis.
THE ANNUAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Volume 22 edited by Jerome A. Winer for the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 1994, viii + 297 pp., $36.00
The criticisms noted in the last issue of Psychoanalytic Books, that most annuals are journals within hard covers, continues to apply. This is not to diminish the value or quality of articles in The Annual of Psychoanalysis, but to highlight the unconnectedness of papers in this and in the numerous festschrift that abound with more to come, particularly with the graying of important figures in psychoanalysis
The 22nd edition of the Annual (actually the 21st since there was a combined number) has papers presented at the Chicago Institute's 60th Anniversary Conference. There is Jane Flax's contribution on psychoanalysis in the postmodern West with provocative