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Sixty years ago, a group of prominent psychoanalysts, developmentalists, pediatricians, and educators at the Yale Child Study Center joined together with the purpose of formulating a general psychoanalytic theory of children�s early development. The group�s members composed detailed narratives about their work with the study�s children, interviewed families regularly and visited them in their homes, and over the course of a decade met monthly for discussion. The contributors to this volume consider the significance of the Child Study Center�s landmark study from various perspectives, focusing particularly on one child�s unfolding sense of herself, her gender, and her relationships.