On the early development of mind / Edward Glover.

New York : International University Press, 1956.

xi, 483 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

The significance of the mouth in psychoanalysis -- Notes on oral character formation -- The neurotic character -- Freud's Theory of inhibition, symptom formation and anxiety -- The etiology of alcoholism -- The psychology of the psychotherapeutics -- The 'screening' function of traumatic memories -- Grades of ego - differentiation -- An introduction to the study of psychoanalytical theory -- Sublimation, substitution and social anxiety -- A psycho-analytical approach to the classification fo mental disorders -- On the etiology of drug-addiction -- The relation of perversion-formation to the development of reality-sense -- Medico-psychological aspects of normality -- The application of psycho-analytic principles in psychiatry -- A developmental study of the obsessional neuroses -- Unconscious functions of education -- A note on idealization -- The psycho-analysis of affects -- The concept of dissociation -- Psychology and the public -- The future development of psycho-analysis -- The position of psycho-analysis in Great Britain -- Functional aspects of the mental apparatus -- The desirability of isolating a 'functional' (psychosomatic) group of delinquent disorders -- Research methods in psycho-analysis -- The indications for psycho-analysis

Includes bibliographical references and index.