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The eleventh volume of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child is organized as were the former volumes in four sections: Theoretical Contributions, Normal and Pathological Development, Clinical Contributions, and Applied Psychoanalysis.
The first part, Theoretical Contributions, contains two papers from the Child Study Center at Yale University—one by Kris and one by Lustman, both of whom show an original approach to the problem of validation. Kris, in The Recovery of Childhood Memories in Psychoanalysis, describes the dynamic effects of the recovery of memories, emphasizing the importance of re-establishing the connection between past and present, of making associative connections which have been disassociated by the defensive process, and of reintegrating into the thinking process what has been isolated previously. This thesis, which is the classic thesis of the analytic process, is demonstrated with clinical examples and presented with the lucidity and clarity which increasingly became Kris's style in the last years of his life. He uses the case of a little girl from the Child Study Center, describing how what really happened was reflected in the emotional experience of the child at the time. This child was observed from birth; her history, the pertinent history of both parents, and their respective characters and neuroses were well known. During her fourth and fifth years an exploratory analysis was done with this little girl, which in play sessions and conversations presented the past as she experienced and remembered it. Since this material could be compared to her rather complete history and observations, it gave a unique opportunity to show how certain experiences are felt at the time when they occur and how they are remembered; also such material lends itself to proving and disproving the validity of certain analytic concepts.
Seymour L. Lustman's paper, Rudiments of the Ego, uses an entirely different approach to the problem of validation of analytic co