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Book Review and Notice: Helping the Handicapped Teenager Mature

(ego) and conscience (superego) can be very conflicting within a person. Many of these conflicts originate in our social structure. Therefore, a social structure such as a group can be most effective in helping persons resolve some of these conflicts. In this chapter, the author relates these experiences to the Christian faith in a real integral way. Indeed a beautiful chapter! In the next chapter on personality type, he briefly and simply, and with some novelty, describes four personality types: the clinging vine (overdependent), star (self-centered), Nero (bully), turtle (withdrawn). I appreciate the clinical description and illustrations. He demonstrates how the group experience and the Christian faith can help a personality type accept themselves as they are and live more wholesome lives. He suggests that going from an exclusively "I" concern to a "we" (that is, considering others as well as ourselves) approach to life is best experienced in a group and is essentially the core of the doctrine of atonement. He describes an authentic process of accepting one's personality and learning that it is not one's personality that hurts but being just concerned about "1." "Only through the 'we' pattern do people learn to live happily and successfully with others" (page 63). However, again I had hoped the author would have been more particular in describing how the Christian faith and the church are an integral part of the healing process. The dynamics of confession, repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation, may be very much a part of any group experience. However, these dynamics are not described nor actively cultivated in the group as described. Thus, some of the integral resources of the church and the Christian faith are not fully explored. The last three chapters become increasingly disappointing. The outline of the decision-making process seems