MEDICINE: Naughty Children

Children are naughty solely because they are ill, unhappy or untrained. This simple explanation of the most colossal of parents' domestic problems underlies the first textbook in English on the personality disorders of children. In Child Psychiatry* published last week, Professor Leo Kanner of Johns Hopkins, a rosy-cheeked, studious man of 41, married and genuinely fond of children, prepared his explanation for the immediate use of parents, uncles, aunts, doctors, judges, sociologists, teachers.

To correct a naughty child Dr. Kanner advises the parents, doctor or...

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