The Personality of the Preschool Child

ForewordPrefacePart 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 ImpressionabilityPart 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 DrawingsPart 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 PsychologyBibliographyIndex