This statistical analysis shows that treatment recommendations for children are related to parental occupational status. The child of an executive or professional will have a treatment recommendation of intensive psychotherapy twice as frequently as the child of a blue-collar worker. This corresponds with some of the work of Hollingshead and Redlich. The authors stress that this should not be misinterpreted to mean that lower class patients are not amenable to psychotherapy. Rather, they say we should be devising modifications of technique to reach these people for whom the customary model of 'the good psychotherapeutic candidate' is not suitable. It occurs to me that by the same token we may be offering the middle-class child who is accepted for psychotherapy the wrong prescription. Does in fact our prescription for the