PEDIATRICS Vol. 24 No. 4 October 1959, pp. 637
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Natural Child Rearing

BARBARA M. KORSCH M.D.

This "practical manual for reasonable parents" presents an odd combination of information. On the one hand there are a series of simple practical recommendations for infant care and child rearing through adolescence, based on currently accepted principles from psychology, psychoanalysis and related fields. On the other hand there are a number of condensed theoretic psychoanalytic expositions on topics such as the stages of early psychosexual development and the traditional concept of the oedipal situation. The practical portions of the text concerning feeding schedules and other aspects of infant care as well as the later chapters on parental handling of children of school age and adolescence are non-controversial, but also fail to present any new material or even a new approach.