Pleased as I am to pay tribute to Dr. Sterba, my chief qualification for doing so would seem to be that, although my published output is far smaller than his, its subject matter is no less diversified. Since my principal current preoccupation is with the ordering of a wide range of clinical material from two follow-up research studies,1 I would like to extract an offering that should prove pertinent to one of Dr. Sterba's published themes. I do so also for the purpose of exemplifying the two-way feedback advantage accruing from working in private practice as a psychoanalyst and in a clinic, as a child psychiatrist, with case material from both.

In a communication “On Hallow'sen,” Dr. Sterba (1948) shows very clearly how differently this occasion is [consciously] understood and celebrated