Part I: The psychological examination -- Introduction -- Qualitative impressions -- Intelligence and cognitive thinking -- The three Wechslers -- Projective techniques: theory and overview -- Rorsach -- Apperception tests -- Human figure drawings -- Integration of test results -- Prediction and retesting -- Part II: Case studies -- Charlie: incipient psychoneurosis in a young child -- Alice: elective mutism: a longitudinal study -- Barbara: mild mental retardation -- Yolanda: psychoneurosis in a child from a socially disorganized environment -- Darryl: character disturbance in a foster home child -- Eric: an adolescent on the verge of a psychotic episode -- Steven: normal adolescent disturbance -- Henrietta: adolescent anorexia.