9th April 1962.

Comments on: Observations on the Striving for Autonomy and some Regressive Object Relationships after six months of age by Benjamin Spock, M.D.

I am very interested in the subjects raised in your paper. No doubt you will agree that here we are touching on a vast area for our exploration. I think you will have gathered from my paper on Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena that I feel that we must include the infant's interest in transitional objects in our concept of normality. The use of transitional or regressive objects