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Articles on psychoanalytic theory concern libidinal object constancy and mental representation, the unrememberable and unforgettable (repression), and the motive, meaning, and causality of anthropomorphism. Discussions of normal and pathological development include the following: levels of verbal communication in the schizophrenic child, a review of a film dealing with 9 days in a residential nursery, the fetish and the transitional object, the imaginary companion, dreams as visual superego forerunners, the vicissitude of childish omnipotence, the psychology of artistic creativity, ambiguous wording in relation to a toilet phobia, and the development of a psychic apparatus. Clinical studies are concerned with borderline states, diagnosis of paranoia, analysis in relation to developmental stages, drug use in adolescents, and effects of parent death. Studies of the applications of analysis are presented on criminal law in riot control and the relationship of creative activity and intrapsychic functioning in the poetry of Keats. (JM)

Twenty-seven papers treat aspects of the psychoanalytic study of the child. Problems of psychopathology and therapy considered are the fantasy of the phallic woman, the use of child analysis, the background of perversions, variables in the production of neurotic disturbances, treatment of narcissistic personality disorders, and problems of the ownership of the body. Contributions to psychoanalytic theory concern the relation of explaining and understanding, the theory of defense, the economic point of view and defense, form and content, and the concept of ego apparatus. Aspects of normal and pathological development include character formation, patterns in blind and sighted infants, conscience development, the development of music ability, and the early genital phase. Clinical contributions involve the re-education of a retarded blind child; a blind child's trip to the hospital; communication in the treatment of a child tiqueur; and object cathexis in a borderline twin. The relevance of psychoanalytic theory to jurisprudence is also considered. An author index contains articles from the first 22 volumes in the series. (JD)

TWENTY ARTICLES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME, THE 22ND IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE CHILD SERIES. PAPERS ON PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND THERAPY INTERPRET LOSING AND BEING LOST, OBSTACLES TO PSYCHOANALYTIC CURE, AND AFFECT CONTROL. ASPECTS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY CONSIDERED ARE FREUD'S CONCEPT OF PRIMAL REPRESSION, CONCEPTS OF STRUCTURE AND STRUCTURALIZATION IN LEARNING AND CREATIVITY AND THE METAPSYCHOLOGY OF THE PREANALYTIC PATIENT. PAPERS ON NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT DISCUSS THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION IN THE PRENURSERY, THE RECOVERY OF A MEMORY FROM INFANCY, CONSIDERATIONS IN THE OCCUPATIONS OF THE BLIND, INDIVIDUATION IN ADOLESCENCE, AND LIBIDINAL PHASES IN TREATMENT OF A PRESCHOOL CHILD. ALSO CONCERNING DEVELOPMENT (NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL) ARE PAPERS ON EARLY INFANCY, THE PEEK-A-BOO GAME, ENCOPRESIS IN A LATENCY BOY, AND MASTURBATION FANTASIES. CLINICAL CONTRIBUTIONS CONCERN VISUAL HALLUCINOSIS, OBJECT CONSTANCY AND PSYCHOTIC RECONSTRUCTION, SCHOOL PHOBIAS, AND THE PERSISTENCE OF AN INFANTILE FETISH. A LIST OF THE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST 21 VOLUMES IN THE SERIES IS ALSO PROVIDED. THIS DOCUMENT WAS PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES PRESS, INC., 239 PARK AVENUE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10003, AND IS AVAILABLE FOR $12.00. (JD)