This book is the author's 1939 medical thesis and is dedicated to medical practitioners, paediatricians, and parents without prior knowledge of psychoanalysis. The author's aim was to sensitise people to the unconscious dimensions of many problems in children. She demonstrates here, through sixteen case studies, how often children's difficulties at

Fiona Sinclair has the ability to see and translate into poetical terms matters of moment. By it's very nature poetry can force the reader into an awareness of which they ignorant. Sinclair has the talent to exploit this approach to its maximum effect. --Martin Holroyd