Description
This two-volume work reviews the cases of 100 children who experienced various forms of interactional stimuli during their rearing that resulted in sufficient behavioral symptoms for their parents to seek psychiatric help. The forms that these stimuli took varied and included punitive, erogenous/erotic, and anal/fecal. The children presented in this review were selected both from the personal clinical experience of the author and colleagues and the psychiatric literature.
The material is organized in an unusual format, requiring the reader to move from volume to volume in order to understand the basic concepts. While I strongly urge every psychiatrist, child or adult, to use these concepts, reading the organizational summary presented in this review before undertaking this endeavor should prove helpful.
