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Meyer, M.A. (1927). Understanding our Children: By Frederick Pierce. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1926. Pp. x + 198. Price $2.00.). Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 8:298-300.

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(1927). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 8:298-300

Understanding our Children: By Frederick Pierce. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1926. Pp. x + 198. Price $2.00.)

M. A. Meyer

One of the flood of books dealing with the psycho-analytic approach to the conduct disorders of childhood that has been poured out of American presses since the subject of child guidance has attained its present vogue. Text-books of this class possess all too frequently not enough of the scientific self-criticism exemplified by Jones's Some Problems of Adolescence, and the calm conservatism shown in Freud's Geleitwort to Aichhorn's Verwahrloste Jugend. Mr. Pierce's work is, in our opinion, an average specimen of its class. It has apparently been written for the benefit of perplexed educators and puzzled parents. We beg to submit to readers of a technical

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Journal of this type a few quotations and references that we feel are fairly representative of Mr. Pierce's thesis.

In his Foreword the author says: 'The unconscious activities of the mind are principally emotional, and it has been my experience in lecturing upon this subject that the average men and women have no diffic

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