ABSTRACT
The children who are the author's patients do indeed need the two kinds of them to get on well with each other, even though sometimes it is part of their illness to try to make quarrel. The parents have always known the child, and they are in their own way specialists in this field. Also, with skill and practice, one may learn from a child patient what is needed for an assessment of normality or illness in the personality, and a measure of the child’s emotional growth. The fact is that the cases need unity in the medical service, because in no other way can the totality of the child or the family be met and assessed. All the children, therefore, were free to live a full life, and their parents were not under constant strain. It must be remembered that all the children had symptoms, such as pains, that had set some observer wondering.
