ABSTRACT
The student of the first period has to do with the child whose world is the nursery and the kindergarten, and the difference between the psychology of early childhood and the psychology of school-age is no less marked than that between first education and school pedagogics. The real founders of a psychology of early childhood were neither pedagogues nor psychologists by profession. The more, careful investigations of the Geneva psychologist Piaget into thought and speech in childhood also show a tendency to "development"-psychology. In addition to the main trend of work in child-psychology we find the development of two movements, dating from the beginning of the century, but only obtaining any considerable measure of application and credence in the last ten years. Totally independent of all efforts hitherto described, and also with an entirely new assumption, the "psychoanalysis," originated by Freud, approaches the child's psychic life.
