Psychology in the Nursery School

This book has been written by an ardent Freudian. The word "Psychoanalytical" is scattered over every page. Some very ordinary actions of the nursery school age are distorted by this obsession, especially in the chapter on "Erotically Tinged Friendships." To give one example. A girl is cutting off a boy's hair with scissors. "The passive behaviour of the boy showed he was sacrificing his masculinity for the sake of her love." There is much that is sound and helpful in this book, though little that is new. The average teacher is, I think, likely to be baffled by so many Freudian terms, even though a glossary is given. The clumsy translation further detracts from its usefulness.