ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Ursula Wise's recommendation of a residential nursery school. For Wise, the majority of cases of childhood outbursts and eccentricities are par for the course and just a passing phase, but there are those cases that she considers need specialist attention. The well-established phobias, the extraordinarily strong will or temper, the shyness that has gone beyond regular inhibition, the wakefulness that is more than the usual sleep disturbance. For these she recommends a consultation with a psychological expert usually found at a Child Guidance Clinic. Many of the symptoms that Wise is told about, such as bed wetting, extreme anxiety, or excessive fears might nowadays be understood as raising the possibility that a child is being sexually abused. That is not to deny, of course, that there is an equal danger if every symptom is taken as an indicator of a real event.
