Book ReviewThe Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Juvenile Delinquents: Psychodynamic assessment and hospital treatment Parent-Child Interaction: The socialization process observed in twin and singleton families

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One might argue that an annual publication, like a chateau-bottled wine, is entitled to a "lesser" year. This year's volume of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child is non-vintage. A group of knowledgeable and in some instances illustrious contributors avoided attempts to integrate current psychiatric knowledge with psychoanalytic observation, thus giving the clinical vignettes a dated quality. For example, in one chapter, a psychotic, phenothiazine-treated mother's move away from her neighborhood is dismissed as "a successful escape on the mother's part from her debilitating chemotherapy." Before the move, this schizophrenic woman's son received the following interpretation from his analyst: he . . .

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