ABSTRACT
IN the Centre we have not been looking at men at work, infants at a clinic, children segregated at a play-centre or at school, adolescents beginning to earn their living or gathered into Boys' or Girls' Clubs—nor indeed at any isolated group or class of individual as commonly envisaged for the purposes of present day administration. We have looked for evidence of function in that long pulsating stream of livingness in which human families fulfil their cycle of development; where husband and wife are seen as one, united in parenthood, and where the child, not regarded merely as an isolated individual, is seen as a new ‘limb’ or differentiating organ, arising and acting within the unity of the family—concrete and tangible evidence and sensitive indicator of the development and functioning of the whole family organism.
