The author considers child neurosis a deficiency disease produced by the absence of normal group play. The neurosis arises to fill the emptiness caused by this deficiency. The neurosis is described as a primitive compulsive play which replaces the missing free group play. The treatment of childhood neurosis takes place in three stages. 1. In the language of its age it is made clear to the child that there is a connection between the symptoms and the deficiency of play in order to eliminate the inhibitory consciousness of disease. This is labeled