It includes four long lectures that she gave to a number of male and female teachers in Vienna, and the book was translated from German into English.
The author, Anna Freud, daughter of the famous scholar Sigmund Freud (who laid the foundations of psychoanalysis), tried to clarify the point of view of psychoanalysis in the first years of life, and how the child is affected during them in a way that shapes his personality, which he may carry with him throughout his life, and which always reflects itself in his feelings, emotions, thoughts, and behavior towards everything, in all phases of his existence.