
The Personality of the Preschool Child
The Child's Search for His Self
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The Personality of the Preschool Child: The Child's Search for His Self presents child behavior and child expression from the point of view of the dynamics of personality during th Organized into three parts encompassing 11 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the speech and thought of children as rhythmically organized in a characteristic way. This text then examines the psychic effect of the fairy tale upon the child, which becomes an adequate means for the child's projections. Other chapters consider children's fantasies that help them to relate otherwise meaningless data to each other, thus facilitating their memorization by establishing relationships. This book discusses as well the confusion of reality and imagination for the child. The final chapter deals with the methods of investigation in child psychology. This book is a valuable resource for child psychologists.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Part I Observation
Chapter I The Mind of Child and Adult
Association and Perception
The Child's Logic
Ego-Concept and Thought
Self-Training for Security
Imagination
First Experiences
The Child's Inability to Generalize
The Mechanism of Children's Questions
The Child's Subjectivism
Directed and Undirected Thought
The Process of Condensation in Children's Thought
Concept Formation in the Thinking of the Child
Integration of Fairy Tales Into the Orbit of Experiences
Learning
The Confusion of Words
The Confusion of Relationships
The Confusion of Reality and Imagination
Learning and Performance
Chapter II The Emotion of Child and Adult
The Range of Emotions
Individuality and Self
The Child's Belief in Magic and Mystical Participation
The Child's Delight in His Bodily Manifestations
The Structure of the Child's Aggression
Sadism and Masochism in Young Children
Children's Fears
Anger and Jealousy
Chapter III The First Characteristics of Social Life
Family Relations
The Parents
Siblings
The Newborn
Ideal and Identification
Isolation and the Concept of Possession
Dominance and Submission
Genuine Social Relationships
Child-Adult Relationship
Social Relationships in Childhood and Adulthood
Chapter IV The Child's Concept of Reality
Space, Time, and Differentiation
Self-Observation
The Problem of Birth
The Problem of Death
Reality and Imagination
Dissociation of Personality
Dreams
Theories of Play
Tools and Imagination in Play Activity
The Social Influence of Play
The Mental Influence of Play
The Emotional Influence of Play
Play as a Training for Expressiveness and Impressionability
Part 2 Experimentation
Chapter V The Preschool Child as an Individual
The Growth of Individuality
Types of Adjustment
Consistency and Types
Identification and Empathy
Neurosis in Child and Adult
Expression Analysis
The Child's Individual Hieroglyphics
The Graphic Dream
Analysis of Individual Problems
A Little Girl's Hate Against the Newborn Baby, Realized in Aggression
A Little Boy's Hate Against the Newborn Baby, Realized in an Escape from Reality
Interpretation of the Child's Individual Associations
Chapter VI The Child's Feeling of Security
Evaluation of the Home Situation from Children's Drawings
Evaluation of the Home Situation from Children's Spatial Concepts
Expression of Security in Children's Drawings
The Child's Adjustment to Space
Security Test
Experiments in Aggression
Chapter VII Intelligence in the Preschool Child
Intelligence and Perception
The Shortcomings of Intelligence Tests
Intelligence and Emotion
Intelligence and Imagination
Imagination vs. Intelligence
Intelligence and Adjustment
I.Q. and R.Q.
Testing the Child's Rhythmic Organization
Nature and Nurture in Graphic Proportions: Rhythm of African Children
The Conscious and Unconscious Sensing of Relationships: The Graphic Expression of the Blind
Changes in Personality and the Change of Graphic Proportions: The Graphic Expression of the Epileptic
The Unconscious Sensing of Relationships as an Innate Factor of Personality
Dynamics of Intelligence
Chapter VIII Projective Methods for Judging Expressive Behavior of Preschool Children
Diagnosis of the Child's Personality from His Everyday Behavior
Expressive Behavior
Analysis of Static Postures of the Body
Analysis of Bodily Movements
The Child's Approach to an Object
The Child's Handling of Material
Finger Paintings
The "Blind" Analysis of Graphic Expression
Graphic Movements a Reflex of Bodily Movements
Graphic Movements a Reflex of Inner Personal Dynamics
The Interrelationship of Graphic Movements
Structure of Forms and Lines
The Texture of Strokes
Direction of Strokes
Movement and Form
Methods of Grapho-Analysis
Training in Interpreting Graphic Expression
Table of Graphic Elements in Drawings by Young Children
Diagnosis of Personality Through a Blind Analysis of Scribblings and Drawings
Part 3 Theory
Chapter IX Principles of Children's Art
The Aesthetic Viewpoint of Child and of Adult
The Negative Attitude Toward Children's Drawings
The Meaning of Wrong Proportions
The Spatial Concept
The Synthesis
The Emphasis
Aesthetic Preferences
Aspects of Studying Children's Drawings
Art Criteria of Child and of Adult
Chapter X Child and Adult. The Educational Bridge Between Two Worlds
Four Misconceptions About the Child's Personality
Illusion of the "Happy Childhood"
Underestimation and Overestimation of a Child's Perception of His Environment
Illusions of Parents About their Role
Illusion About the Value of Punishment
The Case of Jean Jacques Rousseau and His Productive Neurosis
General and Individual Patterns
Nature-Nurture and the Unique Pattern
The Development of the Self
The Change of Personality
Authoritarian and Progressive Education
Philosophies of Education
Dynamic Education
"Editing the Material" of the Child's Personality
Chapter XI Methods in Child Psychology
The Mother and the Scientist
The Postulate of Converging Methods in Child Psychology
Methods of Research in Child Study
Differences of Approach in the Natural Sciences, Psychology, and Child Study
Steps and Techniques of Experimentation
The Goal of Child Psychology
Approaches to the Personality of the Preschool Child by Experimental Depth Psychology
Bibliography
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 358
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 1947
- Published: January 1, 1947
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN: 9781483223841
About the Author
Werner Wolff
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