Youth

Contributions to a recent conference of psychiatrists from 17 ) countries on the subject of the adolescent in his national setting are collected in this book. It outlines some details of his background ln sociological and cultural terms, and some of the foreground in terms normative and deviant behaviour, together with comments on treatI "lent and treatment facilities. The size and style of the book J^ake for easy and pleasant reading, ?ut it is disappointing and unsatisfying precisely because it is so Str>al| and because individual conj1 tr'butors failed to follow the original ^andate given to them by the Editor. So the reader does not have a real opportunity to make comI Parisons within a comprehensive ,rarriework. As a book of reference it fails to