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This book is the sixth in a series of reports growing out of the work of the ZERO TO THREE/National Center for Clinical Infant Programs. Sally Provence was a founding member and, from 1985 to 1988, its president. Stanley Greenspan appropriately begins the book with a moving tribute to her. The book itself is a worthy cap to Provence's contributions to infant welfare. In part due to Provence's work, early intervention is no longer a pioneering effort when infant development is at risk.
Great challenges will always exist, however. The programs selected for this collection show the effectiveness of a range of strategies to meet the need. Psychoanalytic understanding impressively determines, or at least significantly adds to, the value of almost all the work in these reports.
The editors provide excellent introductions, one to the book as a whole and three others to highlight the approaches in the segments to follow, dividing the reports according to whether they tell about infants who are born with handicaps, or who are at risk because of environmental problems or because of problems between the parents. Organized for ease in following the many details, the reports are smoothly written in a readable and mostly jargon-free, directly personal style.
Both programs serving handicapped infants and their families are based on keen psychoanalytic understanding. One, described