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This article deals mainly with the inner causes of asocial behaviour illustrated by the cases of children ranging from 8½ to 12½ years of age who have been treated psycho-analytically with success. Their apparent lack
of moral sense was found to be due to excessive anxiety and the abnormally strong repression of aggressive impulses, which had had a variety of complicated results.
All the children had suffered a lack of parental love at an early age, and this deprivation seems to have been an important factor in the production of intolerable quantities of anxiety and hate.