All children benefit from analytic developmental and dynamic understanding, but not all children who come to us benefit from analysis at that time.

I have singled out a group of young children in whom imbalances and ego defects prevail, although they often are amalgamated with and shape neurotic or preneurotic development. For these young children analysis may often not be as effective as other measures at that time. I suggested that such children may become analyzable when given preparatory educational therapeutic help which aims at making up for early interactional failures and at stimulating ego growth and better integration. Some such children show considerable modifiability by such educational therapeutic management. Subsequently, with their more clearly emerging neurotic symptomatology, these children can be more successfully treated with psychoanalysis.