A girl's childhood : psychological development, social change, and the Yale Child Study Center / edited by Linda C. Mayes & Stephen Lassonde ; foreword by Deborah Weinstein.

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

xix, 305 pages ; 25 cm

"The child" and family life at midcentury / Stephen Lassonde -- Thinking about methods : longitudinal research and the reorientation of the postwar American mental sciences / Andrew M. Fearnley -- The longitudinal study and its setting / David A. Carlson -- The right place (and persons) at the right time / Linda C. Mayes -- Notes on notes : results of the Yale Longitudinal Study, as evidence for history and psychology / Virginia Demos and John Demos -- Archiving the records of the longitudinal study of the child / Diane E. Kaplan -- Selected process notes and research summaries from the Yale Longitudinal Study / Linda C. Mayes and Stephen Lassonde -- Looking in and seeing out / Stephen Lassonde and Linda C. Mayes -- A dynamic biography, based on direct observation and psychoanalytic treatment in the first ten years with follow-up to age fifty-five / Samuel Ritvo et al., with a foreword by David Ritvo and afterword by "Evelyn" -- Back in the day : child psychoanalytic emphases in the Yale Longitudinal Study psychotherapy of "Nancy Miles" / T. Wayne Downey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.