| Show I Daiy Daily Health Service Specialist Finds Talk With Y Youngster Will Wil Frequently Frequently Correct F Faults al Its By DR MORRIS FIS FISHBEIN BEIN Editor Edior Journal of the American MedIcal Medical Med Med- ical Association and of Hygeia the Health Magazine All AU the misery miser in the world says say Dr Douglas A. A Thorn Thom Tor is not due to imperfections in the organism or in inthe inthe the thc economic and social order of things It I is necessary to think thin of ot conduct as the special reaction of a certain human being beig to a certain situation situation sit sit- In life lie Before one can cm determine whether or not the conduct of the individual under the circumstances circumstance was adequate adequate ade ade- ade adeQuate quate to the situation one must know kow kowal all al about the individual and his hi general general gen gen- eral situation in life In going over his records a competent com corn specialist in i child behavior found some of the following habits habis listed by parents parent in the form for of complaints com corn plaints relative to boys and girls gil from 15 to 18 years of age ace These children were self conscious sel stubborn exceedingly introspective constantly cross and irritable had ni nightmares made coss up fantastic stories constantly constanty complained of physical symptoms were shy diffident and sensitive or exceedingly rude rude This does not mean that all al of the children had all aU of these symptoms Some had only one bad symptoms habit but most of them had several of these responses response which were annoying Ing to themselves and to everyone associated ed with them In wih most instances a careful discussion discussion discus discus- sion of the subject with the child attempts attempts at at- tempts tempt to get th the child to play with wih other children sometimes sending the child away to visit relatives or to a distant school brought about a realIzation real real- of the difficulty and anda a change in habits habit No two people react alike aUke to similar similar simi simi- lar situations What one person will pass over in a small smal way another will wl make into a difficult situation One person corrected responds merely b by endeavoring to improve himself Another Another An An- other becomes angry or or sullen and remains grouchy for hours hours Obviously there is something approaching ap ap- ap- ap an average response to most ordinary situations and it i is the average response that is expected from most people Whenever a child or an adult reacts react to an ordinary situation situation sit sit- si in i an excessive or impotent manner th there rc is reason for tor study of the state and for some attempt to understand either the Inadequacy inadequacy in In- adequacy or the of at the response Dr Thorn Thom Tor emphasizes emphasIze the fact fac that the child chUd who ho responds to t a refusal reual with a temper tantrum and who annoys annoys an an- noys nays and disrupts his hs family s is far better off oU so far faras as his hi mental health is concerned than the one who retires promptly into solitude and finds his relief in fantasies and ad dreams in which he either destroys the entire family or disposes of them in some other oter manner maner Conformity is a social asset but conformity conformity conformity con con- in most of the habits of life Ifo must mut be betaken taken for granted It I is the departure from conformity as a result of ot mental inadequacy in the form of at ofa ata a feeling either of inferiority or superiority superiority superiority su su- su- su that demands the most son seri serious ser ser- serous ous consideration of the psychologist |
