This paper is a review of the literature on breakdown in school attendance. The symptom is not confined to phobic conditions but can occur in any type of neurotic or psychotic disorder in children and adolescents. It is an aspect of a failure to develop an extension of relationships from within the family to relationships within the community. It has links with the later problems of absconding from hospitals and prisons and desertion from the Armed Services.
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