ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author evolves a personal way of relating to and communicating with children, offering them a live professional setting in which to discover themselves. He provides a case history of Eliza at age of 7 1/2 years, in which the child is not ill enough to merit a psychiatric diagnosis. Eliza, intelligent girl, comes within the meaning of the term normal, or she is healthy in a psychiatric sense. That is to say, she shows a freedom from any rigid defence organisation. She is able to use her imagination, and after duly testing out the set situation she becomes able to give the author's a dream of significance, in which appears fierceness, the one feature that is clinically lacking and that is absent in her personality as it presents itself to those who know her.
