The Magic Years Author:Selma H. Fraiberg To a small child the world is an exciting but sometimes frightening and unstable place. In The Magic Years, Selma Fraiberg takes the reader into the mind of the child, showing how he confronts this world and learns to cope with it. With great warmth and perception, she discusses the problems at each stage of development and reveals the qualiti... more »es--above all, the quality of understanding--that can provide the right answer at critical moments.
Selma Fraiberg is a Prof. of Child Psy., Univ. of Mich. Medical Schl., and Director of the Child Development project of Children's Psychiatric Hosp., Univ. of Mich. Med. Ctr. She has published widely in professional and lay magazines.« less