A girl's childhood : psychological development, social change, and the Yale Child Study Center /

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. - New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xix, 305 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles

Includes bibliographies and index.

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



9780300210804 9780300117592

2014005822


Yale University Child Study Center


Child development--Longitudinal studies.--United States
Children--Longitudinal studies.--United States
Parent and child--Longitudinal studies.--United States
Child development.
Longitudinal method.
Child psychology.
Child Development
Longitudinal Studies
Psychology, Child


Electronic Books.

HQ792 / .G575 2014