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Nonetheless, supporters outnumber detractors. Harvard's Bruner, Piaget's most appreciative critic in the U.S., voices a common reaction when he acknowledges that Piaget's general conception of the growing mind "is so compelling that even in attacking it one is inevitably influenced by it." At the very least, Jean Piaget has enabled adults to approach children more sensitively and realistically—and perhaps even with greater awe.
*American publishers recently have brought out two guides for laymen, Piaget's Theory of Intellectual Development (Prentice-Hall, $6.95), and An Outline of Piaget's Developmental Psychology for Students and Teachers (Basic Books, $4.95). In addition Piaget and his longtime associate, Barbel Inhelder, have summarized his discoveries in a new book called The Psychology of the Child (Basic Books, $5.95).