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. The Play of a Psychotic Child.
Psychiatric Problems Amongst Evacuated Children.
Children's Hostels in War and Peace.
. Conclusions from Psychiatric Work with Evacuated Children.
Unconscious Form-Creation in Art.
Social Conflict and the Challenge to Psychology.
Some Notes on Suicide.
. The Play of a Psychotic Child. Illustrated with drawings by the child. In this child there is a condition in which feeling and interest are withdrawn from reality and expressed almost solely in relation to phantasies. The child is able to communicate these phantasies in play while remaining almost entirely uncommunicative on a reality level. The phantasies are erotic and destructive, the extremes of aggression showing in the triangular relationships of man, woman and child, with somewhat less aggression in erotic homosexual relationships. Likeness between the thought processes shown in the play of this child and the thought of schizophrenic adults is often clear. Some of the literature on this subject is reviewed. In the phantasies there is a lack of positive impulses of love, affection and tenderness for other people. The chief points are lack of reality, determination in the manner of play, undisguised play on sexual and excretory themes or obvious symbols, and excessive aggression, destruction, self-destruction and mutilation, together with the absence of friendly and constructive themes.