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Psychological Problems of Pre-School Children in an Inner Urban Area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

John Coleman ,
Desmond Pond ,
Bernice Rothwell  and
Wendy Burtenshaw
John Coleman
Affiliation:
The London Hospital Medical College, London Pre-School Unit, 40 New Road, London E1
Desmond Pond
Affiliation:
The London Hospital Medical College, London Pre-School Unit, 40 New Road, London E1
Bernice Rothwell
Affiliation:
The London Hospital Medical College, London Pre-School Unit, 40 New Road, London E1
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Attitudes to the treatment of the pre-school child today stem very largely from the mainstream traditions in classical child psychiatry, the most powerful of which is still probably psychoanalysis. Recent articles (e.g. Freud, 1966; Frommer, 1967; Bentovim and Boston, 1973) describing treatment units for very young children exemplify very clearly the influence of these traditions and illustrate the difficulty of breaking new ground in conceptualizing treatment procedures. It will be the purpose of this paper to take issue with such traditions, and to argue that it is time for a new look at pre-school child psychiatry.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 131 , Issue 6 , December 1977 , pp. 623 - 630
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1977 

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