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This volume is a collection of Dr. Kestenberg's writings over a span of thirty-five years. The book includes important clinical observations, theoretical formulations, and a highly original and courageous application of basic biological and endocrinological facts to issues of human psychic development. It is also a narrative of the growth of a scientist during an especially exciting "developmental period" of our own discipline, child analysis and child development, from the early 1940's to the present day. Finally, it poses several challenging questions for clinicians and researchers in the coming decade if child analysis is to retain the vitality and fertility of its earlier years.
The papers are presented in three major groupings: Part I, "The Development of Sexuality," comprises five papers originally published from 1941 through 1973; Part II, "Phase Development from Infancy through Latency," comprises four papers published from 1946 through 1971 and two contributions previously unpublished; Part III, "Phase Development in Adolescence," includes four papers published from 1961 through 1968 as well as three previously unpublished papers written with Esther Robbins around 1972. The reader is therefore confronted with a rich panorama of ideas, which are often only slightly related to other papers in a given section,