A girl's childhood : psychological development, social change, and the Yale Child Study Center / edited by Linda C. Mayes and Stephen Lassonde ; foreword by Deborah Weinstein.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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"The child" and family life at midcentury / Stephen Lassonde -- Thinking about methods : longitudinal research and the reorientation of the postwar American mental sciences / Andrew M. Fearnley -- The longitudinal study and its setting / David A. Carlson -- The right place (and persons) at the right time / Linda C. Mayes -- Notes on notes : results of the Yale Longitudinal Study, as evidence for history and psychology / Virginia Demos and John Demos -- Archiving the records of the longitudinal study of the child / Diane E. Kaplan -- Selected process notes and research summaries from the Yale Longitudinal Study / Linda C. Mayes and Stephen Lassonde -- Looking in and seeing out / Stephen Lassonde and Linda C. Mayes -- A dynamic biography, based on direct observation and psychoanalytic treatment in the first ten years with follow-up to age fifty-five / Samuel Ritvo et al., with a foreword by David Ritvo and afterword by "Evelyn" -- Back in the day : child psychoanalytic emphases in the Yale Longitudinal Study psychotherapy of "Nancy Miles" / T. Wayne Downey.

60 years ago the Yale Child Study Center planned to formulate a general psychoanalytic theory of children's early development. The group's expert members composed detailed narratives about their work with the study's children, interviewed families regularly and visited them in their homes, and over the course of a decade met monthly for discussion. This book considers the significance of the Child Study Center's landmark study from various perspectives, focusing particularly on one child's unfolding sense of herself, her gender, and her relationships.

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