Better Physical Fitness
Abstract
jects there is no simple, easy baseline on which greater knowledge can then be built. It is a measure of the author' s success that he has rendered complicated subjects (painfully acquired by medical students o Yer some years) readily intelligible for the general reader who has had a reasonable grounding in biology and the basic sciences. The diagrams and illustrations are of high quality and considerable assistance. H. LIETANG. PLAYIXGAND REALITY. By D. W. Winnicott. London: Tavistock Publications Ltd. 1971. Pp. 169 (with Index). Price f2.10. This delightful book will give pleasure and fascination to all who value imaginative thinking and cultural living, particularly with reference to its roots in babyhood. D. W. Winnicott, always an inspired author and teacher, died shortly after completing this book and it will come as a special inspiration t o the lucky ones who knew him and who mourn his absence from the living scene. This book is an extension of the them: put forward by Dr. Winnicott. in his paper: Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena'. I t opens with a review of the original hypothesis followed by a n entrancing chapter on Dreornirig, Fantasying. a d Living. After a theoretical