In this book the author reviews briefly most of the illnesses of childhood, in the diagnosis and treatment of which there is the possibility of confusion between conditions having an organic basis and those arising from anxiety states and having, therefore, psychological causes.

Recollections of the passage, usually tucked away at the end, which, in most books on the diseases of children, treats of the 'nervous child', will cause one to read with more than relief Dr. Winnicott's vivid clinical histories. The pictures given in these histories of the distinct personalities of different neurotic children show that the 'nervous child' of the textbooks is as much a myth as is the 'economic man'. The author draws attention to the fact, little realized outside the narrow circle of medical psychologists, that childhood is the time when, most frequently, bodily