In 1952 The World Federation for Mental Health organized a seminar on Mental Health and Infant Development, at Chichester, Sussex. A teaching faculty of sixteen persons from Britain, France, and the United States presented lectures to a group of discussants from twenty-nine countries. Among the participants were psychiatrists, social workers, anthropologists, pediatricians, and others concerned with the welfare of children, all eminent in their professions and in their own countries. Volume One of these published proceedings of