International Library of Psychology: The Child and His Family

PREFACE
The Child and His Familyhas as its general purpose the investi­gation o f the mutual relations between the child and his family, and, more generally, the child’s life within the family circle. The study is based on accurate records o f events occurring in individual homes during prolonged observation periods. Many specially trained collaborators were needed to collect the data, and many more to evaluate the results.,T h e information on which our work is based was collected between November, 1931, and August, 1933. Observations in seventeen homes were made by the following collaborators: Hildegard Adelberg, Edeltrud Baar, A n n y Blitz, Dr. Lotte Danzinger-Schenk, Dr. Liselotte Frankl, Dr. Irma Gindl, Dr. Sophie Gedeon, Franz X a vier Hollensteiner, Gertrud Hortner, Dr. M aria M audry, Dr. Eleonore Plischke, Dr. Ellen Nora Ryan, and Eduard Ulbrich.