- Part 3 Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood
- Introduction
- 1 History-Taking
- 2 Physical Examination
- 3 A Note on Temperature and the Importance of Charts
- 4 The Nose and Throat
- 5 The Heart, with Special Reference to Rheumatic Carditis
- 6 Rheumatic Fever
- 7 The Rheumatic Clinic
- 8 Active Heart Disease
- 9 Growing Pains
- 10 Arthritis Associated with Emotional Disturbance
- 11 Fidgetiness
- 12 A Note on Normality and Anxiety
- 13 Anxiety (<i>continued</i>)
- 14 Disease of the Nervous System
- 15 Walking
- 16 Mental Defect
- 17 Convulsions, Fits
- 18 Micturition Disturbances
- 19 Masturbation
- 20 Speech Disorders
(p. 281) Disease of the Nervous System
- Chapter:
- (p. 281) Disease of the Nervous System
- Author(s):
Donald W. Winnicott
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190271336.003.0056
Chapter 14 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott uses case histories to distinguish between physical diseases of the nervous system and conditions related to emotional disturbance.
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- Part 3 Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood
- Introduction
- 1 History-Taking
- 2 Physical Examination
- 3 A Note on Temperature and the Importance of Charts
- 4 The Nose and Throat
- 5 The Heart, with Special Reference to Rheumatic Carditis
- 6 Rheumatic Fever
- 7 The Rheumatic Clinic
- 8 Active Heart Disease
- 9 Growing Pains
- 10 Arthritis Associated with Emotional Disturbance
- 11 Fidgetiness
- 12 A Note on Normality and Anxiety
- 13 Anxiety (<i>continued</i>)
- 14 Disease of the Nervous System
- 15 Walking
- 16 Mental Defect
- 17 Convulsions, Fits
- 18 Micturition Disturbances
- 19 Masturbation
- 20 Speech Disorders