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Beata Rank's interesting paper deals in its first part with the differences between the schools of child analysis represented by Melanie Klein and Anna Freud. In the second and main part the author demonstrates her own technique in a clear, detailed presentation of the analyses of two cases. While she disagrees with the Vienna School in some theoretical points, she follows it rather closely in her practical work.
Although Beata Rank states the differences between the Vienna and the English schools, as well as her own disagreements with the Vienna School, simply and clearly, her discussion is based on papers written in 1927 and 1928; the literature between then and 1942 has clarified and revised some opinions both in respect to theory and technique.
A large part of the paper is devoted to play technique which, the author gives her reader the impression, has a rather subordinate rôle in the Vienna school. Published reports of children's analyses coming from Anna Freud's seminar give proof to the contrary. The difference between the schools as far