Book reviews : Mental Health and Infant Development Edited by Dr. Kenneth Soddy. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 2 vols. 25/-

Abstract

Mental Health and Infant Development held at Chichester in 1952 and the second gives details of the case histories which were discussed at the Seminar. The speakers at the Conference represented many countries and several different disciplines; psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, medicine. The result is a book which gives us an outline of different cultures and behaviour patterns, seen from the standpoints of the various writers. One is impressed by the amount of detailed thought which is at present being giv…