This readable book offers an excellent integration of mainstream psychoanalytic perspectives on adolescence, informed by the author's clinical experience and enriched by her original ideas. While by no means encyclopedic, the volume nonetheless succeeds in touching on the key points in the familiar literature on adolescence and in fleshing out a picture of the adolescent process that is comprehensive and coherent. Levy-Warren's synthesis is clearly derived from her theoretical background as a modern Freudian, with evident debts to Blos, Erikson, Winnicott, and Loewald, among others she credits. The hallmark of her approach is a developmental viewpoint, laid out in the first section, which clearly and usefully