ABSTRACT
Parents who come to consultation are feeling guilty about their child’s symptom or illness, and the way in which the doctor behaves will determine whether they will calmly return to taking responsibility which they can well take, or anxiously hand over responsibility to the doctor or clinic. School reports showed ups and downs, and the reason for consultation was one incident of thieving which stood out as more than the common petty thieving of school children, perhaps because of the absence of shame. One of the reasons why the Child Department was set up was to provide a clinic for children who are brought to the Institute for consultation. Even a fortnight’s wait for consultation is usually enough to discourage a parent or guardian. A series of children put on a waiting-list and left there would be a constant source of ill-feeling, and would all the time be seriously interfering with the relations of the Society with the external world.
