Handicaps of Childhood

Part 13

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Cases: Abnormal irritability, 251-253. Abnormal timidity, 253-255. Bashfulness, 165-169, 177-185. Binet's dullard, 3-4. Binet-Simon experiments, 13-18. Crime from jealousy, 99-101. Curable dullness, 11-13, 18-19, 21-24, 25-28, 70-71. "Day terrors," 276-278. Fear of blood, 255-258. Fear of insanity, 284-287. Hysteria from jealousy, 103-105. Hysterical paralysis, 139-147 Indecision, 188-191, 195-198. Jealous dullards, 113-114. Jealousy of mother, 116-118. Mental backwardness from physical causes, 21-24, 25-28. Nervous depression, 134-139. Nervous dullards, 11-13. "Night terrors," 273-274, 280-283, 284-287. Obsession of sin, 266-267. Obsession to murder, 122-123. Obsession to torture, 244-249. "Only children," 37-40, 50-51, 54-55. Pathological lying, 263-265. Physiology of emotions, 88-89, 91, 93-94. Stammering, 211-212, 214-215, 218-220, 226-237. Sulkiness, 67-69, 70-71, 72-73, 77-79. Unemployability, 63-65.

Children's lies, 119-121, 263-265.

Chorea, 74-75.

Chubb, P., 250.

Coriat, I. H., 48, 226_n_, 230-233.

Cornman, O. P., 5, 7.

Crime, causes and prevention, 155-157.

Cruelty, sexual element in, 160.

Dark, fear of the, 258-260.

Darwin, C., 107, 172.

Dattner, B., 226-230.

Davidson, P. E., 28.

"Day terrors", 276-279.

Dearborn, G. V. N., 95.

Dieffenbach, J. F., 207, 208, 209, 238.

Divorce, statistics of, 152-153; causes, 154-155, 159.

Dream-analysis, 117, 135, 252, 291-295.

Dubois, P., 79.

Ellis, H., 47, 84-85, 160.

Exercise, and moral control, 200-201.

Eye-strain, and mental backwardness, 26; and sulkiness, 72-73.

Fairy tales, 243-265; harmful effects, 244-249, 251-261; good effects, 249-251, 263, 265; the war and, 261-262.

Favorite child, the, 55-59.

Feeble-mindedness. See Mental backwardness.

Fiske, C. H., 91.

Fresh air, and moral control, 200.

Freud, S., 234.

Gesell, A. L., 107.

Hall, G. S., 120, 263-265.

Hartenberg, P., 168, 184.

Holmes, A., 18.

Hypnotism, 229, 232.

Imitation, 79-80. See also Suggestion.

Indecision, morbid, 187-203; causes of, 194-199; cure and prevention, 199-203.

Indigestion, and sulkiness, 66-68.

Inferiority, feeling of, 81-82, 113-114.

Insanity, causes and prevention, 157-158.

Jealousy, 99-128; crimes caused by, 99-101; parental attitude to, 101-102; and disease, 103-106, 116-123; in early infancy, 107; causes, 107-115; prevention, 123-127.

Jones, E., 296, 298.

Kyle, D. B., 212.

Luckey, G. W. A., 30.

Marriage, 151-161.

Maxwell, W. H., 7.

Mental backwardness, extent of, 5-6; causes, 6-7, 9-13, 18-25, 28-30; treatment, 25-28; agencies to correct, 31-32.

Mental training, need for early, 126-127, 187.

Moral training, need for early, 29-30, 38-39, 48-49, 52-55, 76-79, 106-107, 132-134, 149, 157-159, 199, 203, 240, 287.

Mosso, A., 243.

Meyerson, A., 144-146.

"Nagging," 82.

Nervous disorders, and backwardness, 12-13; "only children" and, 44, 48; faulty training and, 48-50; "favorite children" and, 56-58; and sulkiness, 67-69, 72-75, 84; and jealousy, 103-107, 115-123; and selfishness, 132-150; bashfulness and, 175-186; indecision and, 188-191, 194-199; stammering and, 222-239; fairy tales and, 244-249, 251-260; "night terrors" and, 276, 284.

"Night terrors," 271-299; description, 272-274; traditional explanation, 274; modern view, 275-283; need for treatment, 284-287; prevention, 287-299. Also mentioned, 38, 39, 254.

Only child, the, 37-55; nervousness of, 44, 47-48; precocity, 44; social inadaptability, 44-45; effeminacy, 46; in adult life, 47-48; how spoiled, 48-55.

O'Shea, M. V., 108.

Physiology of emotions, 87-95.

"Poltergeists," 119-120.

Precocity, 44.

Psychological clinics in United States, 31-32.

Putnam, J. J., 48.

Race conservation, 304-306.

Religious instruction, 265-267.

Retardation. See Mental backwardness.

Rowan, C. L., 213.

Selfishness, 131-161; and nervous disorders, 132-150; and marriage, 151-161.

Sex, mental conflict regarding, 83-85, 296-299; education in, 159-161.

Sidis, B., 190, 192, 284-287.

Simon, Professor, 9.

Somnambulism, 289-290.

Stammering, 207-240; Dieffenbach and, 207-208; peculiarities of, 210-217; psychological treatment, 220-221, 225-238; causes, 221-225, 238; organic disease and, 226_n;_ difficulty of cure, 239; prevention, 239-240.

Suggestion, 53, 80, 125, 224, 225.

Sulkiness, significance of, 65-66; causes and treatment, 66-86; physiological effects, 87-94.

Teeth, and mental backwardness, 26; and sulkiness, 71-72, 75.

Underfeeding, and sulkiness, 69.

Wallin, J. E. W., 11-18.

Walsh, J. J., 148, 194_n_.

White, W. A., 260.

Williams, T. A., 67, 68, 259, 276-280.

Witmer, L., 20, 21, 23, 25, 28, 31.

Wood, P. R., 73.

Worry, effects of, 92-94.

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+----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber notes: | | | | P. 27. 'vigourous' changed to 'vigorous'. | | P. 34. and 71. 'dulness' changed to 'dullness'. | | P. 99. 'woful' changed to 'woeful'. | | P. 200. 'energtic' changed to 'energetic'. | | P. 233. 'lived though them', changed 'though' to 'through'. | | P. 243. 'Thus the famous', changed to 'Thus said the famous' | | as it is a quote. | | P. 292. 'fulfiling' changed to 'fulfilling'. | +----------------------------------------------------------------+

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