<EM>Personality Development</EM> is a comprehensive overview of infant observation and personality development. It starts at inter-utero life and goes through to adulthood, focusing on the emotional tasks involved at each stage of development and the interplay of internal processes and external circumstances.<BR> Contents include:<BR> * intra-uterine life and the experience of birth<BR> * babyhood: becoming a person in the family<BR> * the toddler and the wider world<BR> * the latency period.<BR> Using clinical and observational material, it will be of interest to those teaching personality development courses, as well as mental health and child care professionals.