The Magic Years

<BR><B>CONTENTS</B><BR><BR>PREFACE<BR><BR>Part I. <I>INTRODUCTION</I><BR><BR>1. All About Witches, Ogres, Tigers, and Mental Health<BR><BR>A Fable.<BR><BR>What Is Mental Health?<BR><BR>What Is Anxiety?<BR><BR>First: A Human Protector Against Danger.<BR><BR>The Ego Defends Against Danger.<BR><BR>"Laughing Tiger."<BR><BR>An Infant Scientist.<BR><BR>Imagination, the Intellect and Mental Health.<BR><BR>Part II. <I>THE FIRST EIGHTEEN MONTHS</I><BR><BR>2. "Share Off Slumber and Beware..."<BR><BR>The New-Born.<BR><BR>"Why Does the Baby Smile?"<BR><BR>The Jig-Saw Puzzle World.<BR><BR>On Becoming a Person.<BR><BR>The Case of the Vanishing Object.<BR><BR>Travel and Perspectives.<BR><BR>Locomotion and the Solitary Self.<BR><BR>The Missionaries Arrive.<BR><BR>At Eighteen Months.<BR><BR>3. "Civilization and Its Discontents"<BR><BR>What Good Is A Theory?<BR><BR>Feeding and Feeding Theories.<BR><BR>Disturbances Connected with Separation Anxiety.<BR><BR>Activity Brings Problems, Too.<BR><BR>Introduction to Bowel Training.<BR><BR>Some Disturbances Connected with Bowel Training.<BR><BR>Prevention of Disorders Through Early Detection.<BR><BR>Part III. <I>EIGHTEEN MONTHS TO THREE YEARS</I><BR><BR>4. In Brobdingnag<BR><BR>The Magician.<BR><BR>Abracadabra.<BR><BR>A Voyage to Brobdingnag.<BR><BR>Magic and Science.<BR><BR>"I"<BR><BR>5. Education Toward Reality<BR><BR>The Building of a Conscience.<BR><BR>Weak Spots in the Control System.<BR><BR>Helping the Child Overcome His Fears.<BR><BR>Part IV. <I>THREE YEARS TO SIX</I><BR><BR>6. A Shift in the Center of the Universe<BR><BR>Toward the Age of Reason.<BR><BR>Of Mice and Men.<BR><BR>"Who Am I?" "Where Did I Come From?"<BR><BR>About the Oedipus Complex.<BR><BR>7. Education for Love<BR><BR>The Meaning of Sex Education.<BR><BR>The Parental Dilemma.<BR><BR>How Far Should the Child's Curiosity Be Satisfied?<BR><BR>On Giving Sex Information.<BR><BR>The Educational Role of the Parents during the Oedipal Phase.<BR><BR>Identification.<BR><BR>On Being a Girl.<BR><BR>On Being a Boy.<BR><BR>8. Education of Conscience<BR><BR>The Dawn of Conscience.<BR><BR>Discipline.<BR><BR>The Psychology of Punishment.<BR><BR>The Acquisition of Moral Values.<BR><BR>The Right to Feel.<BR><BR>Part V. <I>CONCLUSION</I><BR><BR>9. Toward the Future<BR><BR>All Kinds of Fortunes.<BR><BR>Lessons from the Laboratories of Human Error and Disaster.<BR><BR>Lessons from a Model Institution.<BR><BR>Can We Insure Against Neurosis?<BR><BR>INDEX