The embattled general pediatrician, harried by the anxious demands of neurotic mothers and confronted by the frequency of emotional disorder and psychosomatic illness in childhood, could scarcely afford to overlook any book that shed real light on the problems of neurotic interaction within the structure of the family. Dr. Ehrenwald's title might suggest that this is just such a book. Unhappily, it is not. Dr. Ehrenwald, a psychoanalyst with an eclectic orientation, has tried to fill a gap that has existed in the field of the study of the family.
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