This Stranger, My Son

This is the story of how a conventional middle-class American household?a surgeon, his wife and three normal children?had first to recognise, then to cope with and, finally, to exclude, an abnormal family member. Tony was a beautiful child, the eldest, and apart from long hours of screaming for no apparent reason, he seemed a normal baby. His intellectual and motor development was average, but he was shy, hated to leave his mother, and would not play with other children. He became extremely jealous of his younger sister and had to be watched in case he harmed her. He seemed to be