Volume 5, Number 6 · October 28, 1965
Neurosis and Children
By Selma Fraiberg
Normality and Pathology in Childhood: Assessments of Development
by Anna Freud
International Universities Press, 245 pp., $5.00
The problem of prediction in child development was once put succinctly by an eight-year-old patient I knew. At the beginning of her treatment she was under the impression that an analyst was a fortune teller, and she was very reluctant to give up her gaudy vision for the mundane truth I taught her. Months later I had to ask her, 'Do you still think I am a fortune teller?' 'No,' she said, 'I know better now. You can tell fortunes backwards but not frontwards.'
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