Alice was a five-year-old girl who lived with her parents and her ten-year-old brother. Medically, she suffered from mild hypoacusia, transmission type. At the time of the consultation, her appetite was decreased at home but she ate better in other people’s homes. The first year of the infant’ life was very important for Melanie Klein. She stated that the transition from the breast to another source of oral gratification demands significant psychological work. Klein would be interested to know how Alice interacted with the breast while she was being fed, and later to know about her oral intake, how she responded to the changes of food, as a pattern of future acceptance of losses and adaptation to reality. Anna Freud would describe the possible factors for the causation of Alice’s disturbances, in this case the family turmoil at the time of her birth.