ABSTRACT
During a visit to Lasteniinna 1 (Children's Castle)–the Children's Hospital at Kuopio in Finland–I was invited to describe a case to a gathering of the staff. This heterogeneous group included the doctors, the matron, several of the nurses, the psychologist, the social worker, and some visitors; and it seemed to be better on this occasion that I should describe to them a case that they already knew, rather than give a case of my own. For this reason a child was chosen from the orthopaedic ward and I interviewed him without there being any urgent presenting problem that would ordinarily involve a child psychiatrist.
