Roots of futility /

Polansky, Norman A.

Roots of futility / Norman A. Polansky, Robert D. Borgman, and Christine De Saix. - San Francisco, California : Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, c1972 - xvi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Poor as Job's turkey -- 2. When is a child neglected? -- 3. Desolation -- 4. Futility in a cultural context -- 5. Design of a diagnostic study -- 6. Psychic maturity and maternal competence -- 7. Transmission of futility -- 8. Impact of a child -- 9. Infantilization -- 10. Verbal accessibility in diagnosis -- 11. Exercise in futility -- 12. Breaking the chain.

This book began not with a design but with a dream.

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