Herbert Strean has brought together a collection of articles that manages to touch on many of the more important recent advances in psychotherapy as a talking cure for children.

The book is divided into five sections. The first two sections deal with the diagnosis and treatment of the child, adolescent, and parents. The last three sections deal with the family, the social system, and some practical applications.

In a comprehensive treatment of childhood phobias, Hanna Colm demonstrates that all phobias in children are dynamically caused by a very specifically disturbed relationship with the parents in their lives. She explores the role of rage that emerges from the double frustration