Sigmund Freud, discoverer of psycho-analysis, died 30 years ago. He tried to explain why some of us cope and others become neurotics. Two generations have been born since then, their lives shaped by his picture of the human mind. Freud's certainty that the child is psychologically 'father of the man' has formed the basis of years of research by believers and opponents alike. But most of it has been on obviously disturbed people, and either highly limited in scope or confined to a retrospective approach - the kind an analyst hears.
In Britain, unique surveys are following the development of thousands of normal people. Already surprising links are emerging between childhood experience and later personality.

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