New Preface Anthony Hulse. New Introduction Gill Gregory. Foreword Viscountess Erleigh. Preface James Crichton-Browne. 1. Heredity and Environment E. A. Bennet 2. The Psychology of Infancy Evelyn Saywell 3. The Only Child D. W. Winnicott 4. The Supersensitive Child Mary Hemingway Rees 5. The Dangers of Tradition in the Nursery Bruce Bruce-Porter 6. Some Problems in Family Adjustment J. R. Rees 7. Temperament Leonard Williams 8. The Day-Dream C. W. Kimmins 9. The Limelight and Assertive Child Hazel Chodak Gregory 10. Jealousy Elizabeth Sloan-Chesser 11. Fear H. Crichton-Miller 12. The Backward Child Alice Hutchison 13. Problems of School Age Hector C. Cameron 14. The Real Meaning of Family Discipline H. Crichton-Miller 15. Children’s Books and Their Effect on The Psychology of the Child A. M. Jackson 16. The Effect of Sunlight on the Psychology of the Child F. Howard Humphris.
Biography
Dr Gill Gregory is a poet, literary critic and biographer. Her father Dr Basil Gregory, led one of the first NHS group therapy units, The Paddington Day Hospital, as its first Director in the 1960s. Gill Gregory is also the editor of Dr Hazel Chodak-Gregory's Infant Welfare (1926), reissued by Routledge Revivals in 2025. An essay by Chodak-Gregory (Gill's grandmother) appears in The Mind of the Growing Child.
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Original Review of The Mind of the Growing Child:
‘…a very interesting and readable English work on child psychology…free from the technicalities of the specialist, and possessed of scientific accuracy' C.C. Crawford, The Elementary School Journal (1929).
