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My approach to this vast subject must derive from the area of my especial experience. The remarks that I may make must be cast in the mould of the psychotherapeutic attitude. As a psychotherapist I naturally find myself thinking in terms of
the emotional development of the individual;
the role of the mother and of the parents;
the family as a natural development in terms of childhood needs;
the role of schools and other groupings seen as extensions of the family idea, and relief from set family patterns;
the special role of the family in its relation to the needs of adolescents;
the immaturity of the adolescent;
the gradual attainment of maturity in the life of the adolescent;
the individual's attainment of an identification with social groupings and with society, without too great a loss of personal spontaneity;
the structure of society, the word being used as a collective noun, society being composed of individual units, whether mature or immature;