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… In his chapters on play, dreams and pictures Fordham uses clinical examples to illustrate his theory that the individuation process can be traced from infancy, and in the theoretical chapter on the conceptual model he develops this further. Jung had supposed that this process belonged to the second half of life. Fordham, therefore, suggests a way of bridging a vital gap, the gap left by Jung, possibly because of the quarrel with Freud which led Jung to concentrate his later work on older people while Freud pursued his interest in infantile sexuality. Fordham acknowledges his indebtedness to the Psychoanalytic School with particular reference to the work of Winnicott and Klein and links this to his own theories on the activity of the self in infancy and childhood and its function in the developing individual.
This book not only bridges a gap and therefore puts analytical psychology onto a firmer base but it also points forward and makes more possible the development of a training for child analytical psychologists. Because the book is so comprehensive it should be used as a theoretical and practical background of the training.
(From JAP 16, 2, July 1971)