Problems of Family Life

By Agatha Bowley, Ph.D. L. & S. Livingstone Ltd. Price 5s. Dr. Bowley brings to her study of family life a wealth of detailed material, culled from extensive case work undertaken in her position as Senior Psychologist to the City of Leicester Education Committee. She discusses the problems which children present to their parents, teachers and the psychological worker and the book caters in part for each type of worker. There is an admirable first chapter on the elements of happy family life, which leads one to expect that here will be a useful book for the inquiring parent, wanting immediate guidance on specific difficulties. Thereafter, however, the book falls between three stools. It gives very little specific guidance for either parents or teachers and the