Essentials of abnormal child psychology : a survey representing twenty-five years' work in the field of child psychology / Ernest Harms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harms, Ernest, 1895-1974, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychiatry.

Child psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Julian Press, 1953.

Summary:

This book is a result of the author's study of abnormal human behavior. The most successful and significant work of the author have been described in a number of papers published here and abroad over the last twenty years, and it is of these papers, slightly revised, that this book is mainly composed. Part One is concerned with the nature and origins of mental abnormalities in children, while Part Two discusses their treatment and cure.

Contents:

1. Abnormally Normal and Normally Abnormal Children

2. Paternus and Materna

3. Childhood Schizophrenia and Childhood Hysteria

4. Ego Inflation an Ego Deflation

5. Depressive and Manic Disease in Childhood

6. Postencephalitis

7. The mignon neurosis

8. Child Art as Diagnostic Means

9. Transitional therapy

10. Autogenic therapy

11. Substitution Therapy; Dogmatic or Differential?

12. Incorrect Diagnosis of Feeblemindedness

13. Basic Aspects of the Education of the Mentally Impaired Child

14. Short-Term Child Guidance in the Clinical Frame.

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