This volume of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, published for the first time by Yale University Press, reveals simultaneously the richness and poverty of contemporary psychoanalysis. The strengths are impressive: astute observations of children's behavior in dyadic situations with a parent or therapist; resourceful psychotherapists whose compassion and dedication are inspiring; original applications of psychoanalytic concepts to the study of cognition, children's games, and literary and artistic creation. The weaknesses, which I will return to