ABSTRACT
The first chapter in Part IV, which has not previously been published, contains a brief description of psychoanalysis and discusses in simple language the difference in the therapeutic needs of the psychotic, the psychoneurotic and the antisocial individual. The second chapter is specifically devoted to the individual therapy of character disorders, linking them with deprivation and relating the therapy of the antisocial individual to the two main trends in the antisocial tendency. Two clinical examples are given. This paper also shows very dearly how Winnicott's theory of the antisocial tendency fits in with psychoanalytic theory as it had developed up to this time. Finally there is a description of a complete therapeutic consultation with a young girl who stole at school. This shows how lying is intimately connected with stealing. It also reveals in a most vivid and dramatic way, through the spontaneous drawings of the child, the nature of a specific deprivation.
