It is a great pleasure for me to write a foreword to thi~ fine work by many dif ferent collaborators under the aegis of my friend and one-time colleague in Geneva, Dr. E. James Anthony, because it represents a collective effort toward a goal that today seems very necessary yet difficult to attain. This goal is the synthesis of developmental psychology with all the other aspects of child psychology into a science of ontogenetic development from birth to maturity encompassing three points of view-the biological, the behavioral, and the internalization of the behavioral into mental life. This synthesis is indeed necessary since it is not possible to understand a disorder or a developmental arrest without having a sufficient knowledge of l the ensemble of elements that has brought it about. At each level of development, the personality of the subject attempts to integrate a multiplex system of factors in varying proportion, and without carefully and fully considering this interdigitating whole, it is not easy to disentangle the mechanisms involved in any particular functional disintegration.

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General Introduction.- Introduction: A General Perspective of Research and Researchers.- Research as an Academic Function of Child Psychiatry.- Bridging Two Worlds of ResearchA Question of Complementarity.- The Child as a Research Subject.- Organically Based Research.- A Model for the Investigation of Psychiatric Disorders of Childhood: Its Application in Genetic Studies of the Hyperkinetic Syndrome.- A Humanistic Approach to Neurochemical Research in Children.- In Osler's Day It Was Syphilis.- Developmental Research.- Infant and Caretaking Environment: Investigation and Conceptualization of Adaptive Behavior in a System of Increasing Complexity.- The Adaptive Process in Early Infancy: A Research Odyssey.- The Conception, Birth, and Childhood of a Behavioral Research: The New York Longitudinal Study.- Psychosomatic Research.- Psychosomatic Models of Development.- Failure to Thrive and Maternal Deprivation.- Psychophysiological Study of Bleeding and Adaptation in Young Hemophiliacs.- The Constructive Use of Ignorance.- Clinically Oriented Research.- Studies of Behavior in Children with Down's Syndrome.- Studies of Family Adaptational Responses to a Specific Threat.- Language and Ego Function of Young Psychotic Children.- Research in the New Field of Psychoeducation: A Case Study of a Research Project on the Content of First-Grade Reading Textbooks.- Naturalistic Research.- Naturalistic Studies of Disturbed Families.- Experimental Research.- The Use of the Serious Experiment in Child Psychiatric Research.- The Ontogenesis of the Investigator.- A Career of Clinical Research in Child Psychiatry.- The Anatomy of a Peripatetic Child Psychiatry Researcher.- Epilogue.- The State of the Art and Science in Child Psychiatry.