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THE METAPSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE DEVELOPED BY ANNA FREUD (1965) and her coworkers at the Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic has been applied to different age groups (A. Freud et al., 1965); (Laufer, 1965); (Meers, 1966); (W. E. Freud, 1967), (1972), to different diagnostic groups (Michaels and Stiver, 1965); (Thomas, 1966), and to children with organically based handicaps (Burlingham, 1975).
The utility of the Metapsychological Profile lies in the fact that it attempts to bring together in an organized framework many different facets of an individual personality. The framework is one which stresses intrapsychic structure and functioning rather than overt symptomatology. As such, it yields a much more dynamic and true-to-life picture of the personality than the more usual nosological categories such as the Diagnositc and Statistical Manuals promulgated by the American Psychiatric Association.
Any diagnostician who has struggled to fit an individual patient into one of the various Procrustean beds provided by the