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This volume of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child presents stimulating and worthy contributions in the tradition of its predecessors. Many of the articles display originality, scholarship, and broad conceptualization resulting in an interesting survey of current psychoanalysis from many perspectives. The volume contains both clinical and theoretical contributions from all developmental phases; it bridges theory and therapy, normal and pathological, clinical practice and formal research.
The initial section, Problems of Psychopathology and Therapy, contains articles by Anna Freud, Lampl-de Groot, and Peto. Anna Freud presents a lucid, concise discussion of reactions to loss, the child as lost object and as loser of objects, and of the lost object in dreams and folklore. Only when the parents are too ambivalent or when their aggression is more effective than their love do children not only feel lost, but in fact get lost. Children as chronic losers live out a double identification, passively with the lost object and actively with the parents whom they experience as neglectful and unconcerned toward them as they are toward their possessions. There is an especially fine discussion of the identification of the