ABSTRACT
The psychological aspect of paediatrics has especial importance at the time because of the interest that doctors have developed in the human beings whose diseases at one time claimed almost exclusive attention. Paediatricians themselves also have been slow to recognize that child psychiatry is essentially a sibling of physical paediatrics, and that much is lost when a child psychiatry department is set up, either under the aegis of psychiatry or of educational or academic psychology. There is, of course, room for all kinds of clinics, and there are areas of overlap between psychiatry and child psychiatry, and between child psychiatry and academic psychology. In the matter of training in child psychiatry, the essentials are physical paediatrics and psychoanalysis. Child psychiatry is concerned with the emotional development of the individual child and with the interferences with maturational processes that come from the environment and from conflict within the child.
