Possibly the most readable and moving account ever written of a child's personality developing in the course of therapy.
This book records convincingly the successful treatment of one of those children, well known to all of us doing child psychiatry, who have the material there in their brains for good or even exceptional intelligence, but who must act stupid because there is something more important for them-i.e. to be....
Dibs, who eventually became a boy with an IQ of 168, was rapidly becoming classified at live years as a defective... The general reader can quite clearly see what Miss A(xline) was doing, and this means that the book is an excellent one for instruction of parents and those who need a clear and simple statement while they are in an early stage of doing psychotherapу......
As a psychoanalyst I welcome this book with all my heart' - D. W. Winnicott in New Society
Cover design by Stuart Flanagan
Vintage paperback

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