ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents a case history of child Peter of 13 years old. This case is intended to illustrate the fact that often the main part of the work is done by the parents. The author’s personal interview with the boy was a relatively insignificant part of the total procedure. It did, however, enable him to get the kind of history of the case that he need, which is the history taken through the patient. This boy, of good intelligence, living in a good family, presented serious symptoms of the kind that the author calls the antisocial tendency. When directly questioned he did not know why he was compelled to act in the way he must act. There is therefore a degree of dissociation. The degree of dissociation would not warrant the use of the term 'split'.
