ABSTRACT
An impetus or drive towards health, and towards a larger and more satisfying experience of personal existence, cannot, in the usual case, be realized on its own. The origins of self are social. Unlike primitive functions, the regulation of heartbeat, for example, which develop inevitably according to genetically given programs, the development of higher functions is ``incomplete,'' to use Hughlings Jackson's word. The program is insuf®cient in itself. An environmental provision is required for proper maturation. Important elements of the necessary social environment are touched upon in this and the following chapters.
