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Reiss-Davis Child Study Center; distributed by Brunner/Mazel, Published 1976. Hardcover, xxiv, 369 pp.; 22 cm. Introduction by Rocco L. Motto; foreword by Simon A. Wile.
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In Good condition with an Acceptable dust jacket. Orange-red cloth boards lettered in gilt on front and spine; moderate scuffing, some color loss along bottom edges of front and rear boards and at head and foot of spine, and nicking to cloth along top edges. Binding tight. Inscribed by Ekstein on front free endpaper: "For Fawn + Bernhard Brodie whose work comes out of Love + Competence. Best wishes, Rudolf Ekstein." Faint erased pencil marks on rear free endpaper. Light spotting to top edge of text block. Pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. Red, black, and white dust jacket with Reiss-Davis Silver Celebration Year seal, $12.50 price on front flap; several chips and tears of 1 inch or less, increasing toward spine ends, a 1/4-inch chip at front panel fold, and moderate spotting, foxing, toning, and mild soiling, heaviest on rear panel. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Association copy, inscribed to Fawn M. Brodie (1915-1981), UCLA historian and psychobiographer of Joseph Smith and Thomas Jefferson, and her husband Bernard Brodie (1910-1978), nuclear strategist and UCLA professor of political science, both of whom drew on psychoanalysis in their work. Rudolf Ekstein (1912-2005), Vienna-trained psychoanalyst, was director of the Childhood Psychosis Project at Reiss-Davis, clinical professor at UCLA, and training analyst in Los Angeles. Silver anniversary volume of 27 papers from the Reiss-Davis Clinic Bulletin, 1964-1974, on the Los Angeles center's training, diagnosis, clinical treatment, research, and the application of psychoanalysis to education; dedicated to Anna Freud for her 80th birthday. Contents: Foreword; Introduction: Past, Present, and Future of the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center; Part I. The Reiss-Davis Child Study Center: Its History, Its Philosophy and Purpose, Its Scope; Part II. The Training of the Professional; Part III. The Diagnostic Process, Assessment, and Training; Part IV. Clinical Studies and Treatment; Part V. Research and Exploration; Part VI. Education and School; Index.