TY - JOUR AB - BOOK REVIEWS 265 As Bob Coles searches for answers in his own work with children and in his own inimitable road for social action, he evokes in Anna Freud those reactions which follow his own interest and he engages her in the areas of common interest. Anna Freud emerges in Bob Coles’ profile as a humanitarian, a dreamer, who has the highest goals and commitments toward learning from children in order to teach about children. The Anna Freud-Bob Coles dialogue gives us information about a life which is so very different from the other Anna Freud biographies, very personal and thereby, very revealing. He quotes her frequently and one can find formulations, thoughts and ideas which allow him to witness her unique mind, her struggle to fulfill her own dream and her clarity of formulations. As such, this book is invaluable to those who wish to know Anna Freud and psychoanalytic history. As Bob Coles quotes so richly their con- versations, we know also about him, his idealism about his work; and what they shared together did not blur the emerging image of Anna Freud. He admires her creativity, her historical role in establishing child psychoanalysis, her application of TI - Sigmund Koch and David E. Leary, Eds. A Century of psychology as a science. Washington, DC: American Psychological association, 1992. 1008 pp. $49.95 (cloth) (Reviewed by M. Brewster Smith) JF - Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences DO - 10.1002/1520-6696(199407)30:3<265::AID-JHBS2300300318>3.0.CO;2-S DA - 1994-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/sigmund-koch-and-david-e-leary-eds-a-century-of-psychology-as-a-PNkuJEyO3C SP - 265 EP - 267 VL - 30 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -