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II UNGRADED APRIL, 1917 Entered as second-closs matter March 28, 1916, at the Post Office at Concord, N. H., Signed articles are not to be understood as expressing the views of the editors or publishers No. 7 Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal by Courtesy of the Author PSYCHOPATHIC CHILDREN* WHAT NEW YORK CITY IS DOING FOR THEM BY L. PIERCE CLARK, M.D. NEW YORK In order that one may understand the motives in the present movement to study and prevent the psychopathies of children, we should see clearly the reasons for such work. The psychiatrist has long realized that out of the earliest maladaptations of the precox and many allied states, much of the symptomatology and innate defects of the patient have flowed, and that more intensive study of child, and even infantile life is necessary to understand properly and gauge the psychiatric issues concerned. The trends in this direction are well shown in Meyer's precox studies, and Hoch's effort to elucidate the developmental facts in his personality studies. Those of us more immediately concerned with the interpretation and treatment of functional nervous disorders, such as the psychoneuroses, have realized the absolute necessity of a knowledge of the subsoil of habit, manners, and conduct in the neurotic makeup, as well as in the normal child. Nor have physicians alone awakened to this new task; indeed, many still do not recognize the enormous importance of the problem. Many educators, however, are awakening to the fact that modern education calls for a more individualized approach to child development and that it is one of the chief functions of an educational system to study the particular child and help him to adapt his innate powers to his environment and life work. In order to do this, it is essential that we take a better inventory of the child's native ability and temperament. The importance of study of the nervous child is felt even more keenly by society at large, independently of physician, educator, and psychologist. It is heralded by many interesting researches upon the nature and causes of vagrancy, crime, prostitution, and pauperism, the diseases of social life. * Read before the New York Psychiatrical Society, November 5, 1913, and, in abstract, before the New York County Medical Society, January 13, 1914. Copyright, 1914, by A. R. Elliott Publishing Company. |