In therapy with schizophrenic, delinquent, and neurotic children careful attention must be paid to the relevance of the interrelationships between the characteristic anxieties of the several levels of psychosexual development and the stages of superego development. Schizophrenic youngsters may manifest anxieties superficially linked to castration and guilt, yet the therapeutically important level will be the very primitive fears of annihilation and pleas for help, since their actual level of object relationship is that of a nondifferentiated orality and superego manifestation is only a precursor. Similarly, delinquent children, though more advanced, have not developed beyond the pregenital level, have not entered the phallic-urethral stage, nor they resolved their Oedipal struggle. Their