The author's book deals with a most neglected aspect of
psychoanalysis - normality. Its chief concern is with the ordinary
problems of upbringing which face all parents and the usual
phenomena encountered by every clinician. Yet, though primarily
practical and clinical in its approach, it also makes a major
theoretical contribution to psychology. The author begins with an
account of the development of analytic child psychology, its
techniques and its sources in child and adult analysis and direct
observation of the child. The author then describes the course of
normal development, how it can be hindered or eased, what are the
unavoidable stresses and strains and how variations of normality
occur. The author outlines a scheme for assessing normality and for
gauging and classifying pathological phenomena in terms of the
obstruction of normal progress rather than the severity of
symptoms. Stress is laid on the problem of predicting the outcome
of infantile factors for adult pathology in the face of the child's
continual development. Finally, child analysis is considered both
as a therapeutic method and as a means for the advance of
knowledge.
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