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Glauber discusses the role of constitution or inheritance in the development of stuttering in the light of recent genetic studies and observations of early ego development. Stuttering is an ego defect or a narcissistic disorder, the stutter a symptom of the return of an early ego state. Some of the phenomena of stuttering are restitutive, as are some of the symptoms in schizophrenia.