ABSTRACT
The evidence of past symptomatology is less adequate than that for the present, since parents were occasionally uncooperative in the interview, showed denial themselves, or could not remember: (1) separation anxiety, six (one kept the bottle until age three, another got up nightly until age six to see if mother was there, a third was afraid to stay alone, two had anxiety in going to kindergarten and had to leave, and another had difficulty in giving up the blanket and bottIe); (2) somatic complaints (episodic histories of abdominal pain without vomiting, four; headaches, three; dysmenorrhea, one); (3) psychoneurotic symptoms (teeth grinding, one; fear of needles, one); (4) other symptoms (allergies, two; poor eating, three; enuresis, three-one to age four, one to age eleven, and one to age five; stuttering, three-one to a few months, one to age nine; obesity, two; speech difficulty, one; overcompliance, two; poor social life, two).
