This section has been revised by members of the Bulletin Committee and the Introduction to the Manual now reads:

There is no consistency in regard to the definition of a psychological ‘symptom’ insofar as the child is concerned, and the term has tended to be used rather loosely. In psychoanalysis the neurotic symptom has been described as a compromise formation1. Strictly speaking, it should be so defined only in the case of the neurotic symptom found in particular types of neurosis, such as hysteria and obsessional neurosis.2 These classic adult conditions are relatively rare