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This volume is the most recent of a series which will include all of the author's writings. The book consists of twenty papers, five of which are published here for die first time.
Part 1 comprises the main body of the volume and covers the areas mentioned in the subtitle: psychoanalytic training, diagnosis, and the technique of therapy. In “The Ideal Psychoanalytic Institute: A Utopia” , Anna Freud discusses the prerequisites for psychoanalytic training, selection procedures, the personal analysis, clinical work, theoretical training, and the application of psychoanalysis to other fields. Throughout the paper she stresses the desirability of candidates who study psychoanalysis fulltime and a paid faculty which is committed primarily to teaching.
In “Child Analysis as a Subspecialty of Psychoanalysis” , she argues that training in both child and adult analysis be part of the education of all analysts. A fully trained analyst needs theoretical and clinical experiences with individuals in all stages of life. Specialization in child analysis or adult analysis should occur after this all-around training has been completed.
Other papers devoted to psychoanalytic training are “A Short History of Child Analysis” and “Some Thoughts about the Place of Psychoanalytic Theory in the Training of Psychiatrists” (1966).
A number of interesting papers deal with issues of diagnosis. Anna Freud again emphasizes a developmental and metapsychological approach rather than a symptomatic or descriptive one. She presents a classification of childhood symptomatology and discusses the infantile neurosis and “adolescence as a developmental disturbance.”
A group of important papers are devoted to technical problems: indications and contraindications for child analysis, termination in child analysis, and acting out. Two especially stimulating papers, “A Discussion with Rene Spitz” and “Difficulties in the Path of Psychoanalysis: A Confrontation of the Past with Present Viewpoints” , demonstrate An