COVER -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to this edition -- Foreword to the 1980 edition -- Chaper 1. THE PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEW OF CHILDHOOD: LONG-DISTANCE AND CLOSE-UP -- Reconstructions from the Analyses of Adults and Their Applications -- The Advent of Child Analysis and Its Consequences -- Direct Child Observation in the Service of Psychoanalytic Child Psychology -- THE ANALYST'S EXCLUSIVE CONCENTRATION ON THE HIDDEN DEPTH -- THE DERIVATIVES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS AS MATERIAL FOR OBSERVATION -- THE DEFENSE MECHANISMS AS MATERIAL FOR OBSERVATION -- ITEMS OF CHILDHOOD BEHAVIOR AS MATERIAL FOR OBSERVATION -- THE EGO UNDER OBSERVATION -- Chaper 2. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN CHILD ANALYSIS AND ADULT ANALYSIS -- The Therapeutic Principles -- The Curative Tendencies -- Technique -- The absence of free association -- Interpretation and verbalization -- Resistances -- Transference -- The Child Analyst as a New Object -- The Child Analyst as the Object of Libidinal and Aggressive Transference -- The Child Analyst as Object for Externalization -- Infantile Dependency as a Factor in Adult and Child Analysis -- Dependency as a factor in adult analysis -- Dependency as a factor in child analysis -- Recent studies of dependency -- The Balance between Internal and External Forces as Seen by Child and Adult Analyst -- Chaper 3. THE ASSESSMENT OF NORMALITY IN CHILDHOOD -- I: Early Spotting of Pathogenic Agents -- Prevention and Prediction -- The Translation of External Events into Internal Experience -- Four Areas of Difference between Child and Adult -- II: The Concept of Developmental Lines -- Prototype of a developmental line: from dependency to emotional self-reliance and adult object relationships -- Some developmental lines toward body independence -- From Suckling to Rational Eating.

From Wetting and Soiling to Bladder and Bowel Control -- From Irresponsibility to Responsibility in Body Management -- Further examples of developmental lines -- From Egocentricity to Companionship -- From the Body to the Toy and from Play to Work -- Correspondence between developmental lines -- Applications: entry into nursery school as an illustration -- Required Status on the Line "From Dependency to Emotional Self-Reliance" -- Required Status on the Line toward Bodily Independence -- Required Status on the Line toward Companionship -- Required Status on the Line from Play to Work -- III: Regression as a Principle in Normal Development -- Three types of regression -- Regression in drive and libido development -- Regressions in ego development -- Temporary Ego Regressions in Normal Development -- Deterioration of Secondary Process Functioning in the Waking Life of Children -- Other Ego Regressions under Stress -- Ego Regressions as the Result of Defense Activity -- Drive and ego regressions, temporary and permanent -- Regression and the developmental lines -- Chaper 4. ASSESSMENT OF PATHOLOGY. PART I. SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Descriptive versus Metapsychological Assessments -- Static versus Developmental Terminology -- Lying -- Stealing -- Criteria for Assessing Severity of Illness -- Assessment by Development and Its Implications -- Uneven drive and ego progression -- Disharmony between developmental lines -- Permanent regressions and their consequences -- Assessment by Type of Anxiety and Conflict -- Assessment by General Characteristics -- Frustration tolerance and sublimation potential -- Mastery of anxiety -- Regressive versus progressive tendencies -- A Metapsychological Profte of the Child -- Draft of diagnostic profile.

Chaper 5. ASSESSMENT OF PATHOLOGY. PART II. SOME INFANTILE PRESTAGES OF ADULT PSYCHOPATHOLOGY -- The Infantile Neuroses -- The Developmental Disturbances -- External stresses -- Internal stresses -- Disturbances of Sleep -- Disorders of Food Intake -- The Archaic Fears -- The Behavior Disorders of the Toddler -- A Transitory Obsessional Phase -- Disturbances of the Phallic Phase, Preadolescence and Adolescence -- Dissociality, Delinquency, Criminality as Diagnostic Categories in Childhood -- The age factor in social development, legal and psychological -- The newborn as a law unto himself -- The caretakinc mother as the first external legislator -- External control extended to the drives -- Internalization of external drive control -- The Principles of Mental Functioning and Their Bearing on Socialization -- The Development of Ego Functions as a Precon-dition of Socialization -- Ego Mechanisms Furthering Socialization -- Id Attributes as Obstacles to Socialization -- Failures of socialization -- Moving from family to community standards -- Homosexuality as a Diagnostic Category in Childhood Disorders -- Object choice: the age factor -- Prognosis versus reconstruction -- Homosexuality, favored or prevented by normal developmental positions -- Other Perversions and Addictions as Diagnostic Categories in Childhood -- Addiction -- Transvestitism -- Fetishism -- Prediction of outcome -- Chaper 6. THE THERAPEUTIC POSSIBILITIES -- The Classical Psychoanalytic Therapy for Adults: Its Range and Definition -- Psychoanalytic Therapy for Children: Its Rationale -- Intrapsychic conflict in child analysis -- "Normal" Childhood Conflicts and Analysis -- The Developmental Disturbances and Analysis -- The Infantile Neuroses with Child Analysis as the Treatment of Choice.

A Subspecies of the Infantile Neuroses in Analysis -- Summary -- Therapy of the nonneurotic disturbances -- The Therapeutic Elements in Psychoanalysis -- Selection of Therapeutic Elements According to Diagnostic Category -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.