ABSTRACT
We start with a highly unusual boy who shows a very severe impairment in social
integration. This boy was born in June 1933 and came for observation to the
Heilpa¨dagogische Abteilung (Remedial Department) of the University Paediatric
Clinic in Vienna in the autumn of 1939.1 He was referred by his school as he was
considered to be ‘uneducable’ by the end of his first day there.
