Children's early recollections as basic for diagnosis.

While the efficacy of early recollections (ERs) for diagnosis into categories of current psychopathology of the subjects has been examined before (2,3), the present study investigates the extent to which Adlerian clinicians can tell from the ERs of children and adolescents whether they have been diagnosed by a clinical team as cases of psychoneurosis or as cases of adjustment reaction, conduct disturbance.