Psychiatric Examination of the School Child

to medical practitioners, especially school medical officers, in clinical examination and it is hoped that educationists and others may be interested. The approach is physically determined and readers interested in dynamic psychology will find that, far from elucidating general principles, the psychological level of the book is superficial and unenquiring. The classification employed is based almost exclusively on symptoms, but readers may feel that the time has passed when child psychiatry can afford to be content with merejy symptomatic divisions. Within this classification, temperamental states are included with nervous habits (so-called) such as thumb sucking, enuresis, tics, and sleeping and feeding disorders; whereas inadequacy, anxiety and attention-getting behaviour are grouped under a separate heading together with behaviour disorders (so-called), such as lying and stealing. A