This paper concerns a study of the bladder control of some sixty children over a period of six years. It was found that the average age for achieving control during the day was 21.4 months and during the night 27.3 months. Inconsistency in training and neurotic attitudes of the person in charge of training

were significant and conducive to failure. Those who had difficulty in establishing control developed many other neurotic stigmata. In those children who were trained early there were manifestations of over-organization of the personality. The greater frequency of enuresis among boys was explained on the basis that boys have to go through two stages of training, namely, urinating while sitting down and then while standing up. After reviewing the literature Despert suggests that training be not initiated earlier than at eight months. Some superficial case material is presented and there is an extensive bibilography which is noteworthy for the few psychoanalytic references.