Childhood Experience and Personal Destiny

Parents properly seek guidance from their pediatricians in child-rearing practices. In recent years pediatricians have been increasingly interested in the clarification they can expect from psychoanalysis about problems of child rearing. The most important contribution of the above book, written by a New York psychoanalyst, is the attempt to show how the reconstructive data gained from the psychoanalysis of adults can give insight into the effect of childhood experiences on personality development. Dr. Silverberg's book is well organized, and he is to be congratulated for attempting to throw light on this difficult and important area.