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The author prefaces his work with the comment that this work is the outcome of a decade of daily clinical experience with all the varieties of maladjusted children nurtured by the American environment.
Not many years we must interject but the “clinical neurologist” stops at nothing here however, not that the “fool steps in” for there is much good sense and sound understanding within the frame of reference utilized by the author.
He discusses the Kenworthy Ego-Libido method, of which he apparently is not au courant with the more important backgrounds, thus thrusting somewhat diluted freudian conceptions into the foreground, instead of utilizing the more fundamental backgrounds of the unmodified freudian conceptions to say little of his apparent unawareness of the meanings of the terms Ego and Libido even after their rather copious dilutions from the Kenworthy sources.
If “behavior” can be understood in any other terms than the “emotional reactions to experience”—the which is not accepted by the author—then the reviewer confesses he knows little of the whys and wherefores of behavior.
The author utilizes what he calls a component factor method: Heredity, physical organization, mentality, family environment, mentality, family, economic and cultural factors, social factors, and the child's own insight.