The Special School for Emotionally Disturbed Children 1

Aichhorn August . Wayward Youth. New York: Viking Press, 1935.

A report on the first experiment in the application of psychoanalytic principles to the institutional treatment of delinquents; this book is a classic in the rehabilitation of delinquents and is still one of the best discussions of the psychological aspects of this process.

Klein Emanuel . “Reluctance to Go to School,” Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Vol. I, pp. 263–79. New York: International Universities Press, 1945.

Illustrations of the reasons why children refuse to go to school. The cases reported were treated in a child-guidance clinic.

Lowrey Lawson G. “Delinquent and Criminal Personalities,” Personality and the Behavior Disorders, Vol. I, pp. 794–821. Edited by McVicker Hunt J. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1944.

A survey of present-day thinking on the delinquent personality. The viewpoint is that of dynamic psychology. The bibliography includes ninety references.

Paneth Marie . Branch Street. London: Allen & Unwin, 1944.

The report on an experiment in group work with children from a submarginal neighborhood which the author conducted in London during the war. Her methods seem applicable to all types of neighborhood gangs.

Redl Fritz . “The Psychology of Gang Formation and the Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents,” Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Vol. I, pp. 367–77. New York: International Universities Press, 1945.

A discussion of the group psychological phenomena which explain why delinquents form gangs, and the implications of these observations for therapy.