Like so many volumes appearing today this one contains no new ideas nor is old material organized in any original way. Psychological material that still would be seriously questioned is accepted as fact. It is not true as stated that the infant is only a receiver; the suckling relieves the mother's tension as much as the mother relieves that of the baby in the act of feeding. The language is glib. It is said that “the personality must be viewed as psychosomatic.” Woe be to the newer generations when a glove is dropped or a love sigh is heaved; it will be no longer fashionable to say, “You must be analysed” but the cliche will be “You are psychosomatic.” The volume presents the same old psychological material one finds in so many similar works. It seems that the educators may become engulfed with the publishers’ output. Maybe there ought to be a law. On the other hand the reviewer may be too harsh and the more books that are turned out the more chance there will be that people will read about such problems—raison d'être.