Abstracts.

This article presents abstracts of several research papers related to family research, published in various journals. The paper "Psychoanalsrtic Principles in a Mental Health Clinic for the Pre-School Child and His Family," by Nathan W. Ackennan, published in the journal "Psichiatry," is based upon the author's experience as Director of the Council Child Development Center in its first five years of existence, 1946-1951. He discusses the Center's attempt to integrate psychoanalytic thought into its program. According to the article "The Family Today: Its Needs and Opportunities," by Martha M. Eliot, published in the journal "Pastoral Psychology," the end result which is desired in child rearing is a healthy person&Iity. Parents today are anxious for knowledge about child growth, development, and care. Knowledge about child development has been a slow and gradual accumulation, it will not be complete for some time to come, However, thme who work with families have the task of prescnting to the parents the knowledge available.