Population, Evolution, and Birth Control: A Collage of Controversial Ideas

3) As study material for students of child development. Rarely do students have an opportunity to be exposed to such rich clinical material on early child development. Especially for class work in non-clinical settings, the material should prove to be most valuable. The book is remarkably free of technical terminology or jargon, thus rendering it useful for students of all disciplines. The non-professional interested in family dynamics will find the text understandable. The editors are to be commended for succeeding in their objective of presenting the families descriptively rather than interpretively. Only rarely does an interpretation creep in-which is a significant achievement since so many observations beg interpretation. Indeed, it is hoped that the team will extend this work by producing companion pieces of interpretation and theoretical inferences. It would be particularly interesting to have psychoanalytic interpretations of this rich material drawn not from psychotherapy, but from the observations of "normal" children. Such studies can lead us farther on the road to a better understanding of the development of mental health and mental illness.