Mental Health and Infant Development

of a large body of persons, both those who assisted in bringing the idea of the meeting itself into effect and those who took part and contributed to the numerous lectures, discussions and the presentation of case studies including films. It was virtually an experiment in "international, multi-professional and technical education in the field of mental health." Exactly how the meeting was made possible and brought into being is described by the Editor in the opening pages of Volume I (Part I), where also will be found a list of those who took part. The conference consisted of a three weeks' non-residential training course in which 51 persons from 30 countries were brought together with a teaching staff of 23 from France, America and England. The subject matter dealt with infant development in the first two years of life and certain phenomena of family life associated with this development. The objects appear to have been to promote understanding, at an international level, of the problems cultural, educational, and familial, associated with child rearing, and to learn something of the varying cultural patterns of different communities and their repercussions on individual children's development. These objects appear to have been amply fulfilled; at the