ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents a case history of child Cecil of 21 months old. This case notes concern a boy, a characteristic of whose emotional development was a capacity to regress to dependence in his home setting. The parents met these regressions adequately, and in this way turned them into positive therapeutic experiences. The case has special interest in that the process links very closely with the regressive episodes that characterise the life of any child in a reliable home setting, that is, apart from the question of psychiatric illness either in the child or in the family. The boy developed and maintained a capacity to regress to dependence, and the parents met this tendency. In this way the regressions had therapeutic value, and kept open a path to the feelings of infancy.
