ABSTRACT
A boy aged seven years was brought to the Psychology Department of the Paddington Green Children’s Hospital by his mother and father in March 1955. The other two members of the family also came: an M.D. girl aged ten, attending an E.S.N. school, and a rather normal small girl aged four. The case was referred by the family doctor because of a series of symptoms indicating a character disorder in the boy. For the purposes of this description all details that are not immediately relevant to the main theme of this paper are omitted. An intelligence test gave this boy an I.Q. of 108.
