CONTENTS

Foreword

DEBORAH WEINSTEIN

Acknowledgments

Introduction

LINDA C. MAYES AND STEPHEN LASSONDE

1. “The Child” and Family Life at Midcentury

STEPHEN LASSONDE

2. Thinking about Methods: Longitudinal Research and the Reorientation of the Postwar American Mental Sciences

ANDREW M. FEARNLEY

3. The Longitudinal Study and Its Setting

DAVID A. CARLSON

4. The Right Place (and Persons) at the Right Time

LINDA C. MAYES

5. Notes on Notes: Results of the Yale Longitudinal Study, as Evidence for History and Psychology

VIRGINIA DEMOS AND JOHN DEMOS

6. Archiving the Records of the Longitudinal Study of the Child

DIANE E. KAPLAN

7. Selected Process Notes and Research Summaries from the Yale Longitudinal Study

LINDA C. MAYES AND STEPHEN LASSONDE

8. Looking In and Seeing Out

STEPHEN LASSONDE AND LINDA C. MAYES

9. 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”

10. Back in the Day: Child Psychoanalytic Emphases in the Yale Longitudinal Study Psychotherapy of “Nancy Miles”

T. WAYNE DOWNEY

List of Contributors

Index