SOURCE: "From the Mouths of Babes," in The New York Times Book Review, February 12, 1978, p. 8.

Storr is an English psychiatrist and educator whose written works include The Dynamics of Creation (1972), C. G. Jung (1973), and The Art of Psychotherapy (1980). In the following review of Conversations with Adam and Natasha, Storr contends that, while the book's subject matter—transcriptions of conversations between Laing's young children—holds a certain fascination, the work is ultimately insubstantial.

Admirers of R. D. Laing will enjoy this book. I liked it better than any book of his that I have read since his first two, The Divided Self and The Self and Others. Laing is evidently a compulsive writer who, in addition to his regular production of books (and his psychoanalytic practice), keeps a journal. In this, over a period of six years, he has recorded conversations with Adam and Natasha, the two elder children...