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In a relatively small volume James A. Knight takes us through the gamut of money and human behavior. This book is a running commentary on the significance of money in relation to history, personality and society. Dr. Knight discusses the psychological meaning, uses and misuses of money, monetary aspects of childrearing, adolescence and family relationships, giving, altruism and moral implications. The author's writing bears the trademarks of his dual background as psychiatrist and minister. Analytic and psychological theory become well mixed with biblical, spiritual and theological thought. This trend becomes more pronounced as one reaches the last two chapters of the book. The author has researched his material well and seem to have attempted an integration that would fulfill the requirements of his two disciplines. This is said by way of clarification rather than criticism, for each author can only write in a way that is natural to his own frame of reference.
Although the meaning of money in our human economy and relationships has long been dealt with in the analytic literature, it has