Child development and personality.

This book is intended as an introductory text for students of child psychology and personality development. The principal theoretical orientation is unchanged from that of the first edition and the authors remain convinced that "contemporary learning theory offers the best method for the analysis of behavior." This new edition also contains material derived from recent animal experiments, the observations of Piaget, and some of the clinical insights of psychoanalysis. It is unfortunate that the original two authors did not choose a psychiatrist as the new third author. The book contains numerous examples drawn from medical and psychiatric practice, many of which either contain inaccuracies or suggest conclusions which a physician, by virtue of his training and clinical experience, would reject. A third author, with a different theoretical orientation, might perhaps have presented the other points of view in a better light than do the present authors. A feature of this