Child Guidance Service in Wartime

Poland, the lakes and forests of Finland, the mountains of Norway, the dykes of Holland, the little hills of Belgium, and more recently the plain of Flanders. We have pictured ourselves administering first aid to the wounded, hot drinks to refugees, or just keeping cool under heavy fire ! But for most of us such portraits are drawn more from phantasy than from reality. Certainly we may do a little A.R.P. in our leisure time, but our duty is surely to our profession, and Psychiatry and Child Guidance is perhaps more necessary than ever before. At the outbreak of war, in common with many others, I felt sadly bewildered and apprehensive, wondering what my job would be, and where and when the first bomb