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By Stanley I. Greenspan. New York: Int. Univ. Press, 1981, xvi + 263 pp., $27.50.
In recent years a number of psychoanalysts have entered the area of preventive intervention by taking part in programs that aim to avert or minimize later pathology by working with infants at risk and their families. A variety of different program models have been devised. They have included therapeutic nurseries, infant day care, and work with parents ranging from counseling and supportive therapy to focused analytically oriented psychotherapy. Those of us who have taken part in such programs know that existing theoretical frameworks only begin to orient us in this relatively unexplored world. Psychoanalytic developmental psychology, including the modern contributions, is of great help, but each of us has found it necessary to make use of the findings from the rest of developmental psychology.
Stanley Greenspan has been a major participant in such a program