Abnormal functioning of the central nervous system, associated with a variety of causes, functional and structural, and present before birth or in the first five years of life, may result in behavioral and perceptual distortions and in specific learning disabilities. By adolescence these distortions often have become fur ther encrusted with all sorts of emotional difficulties. They appear as a com posite of the underlying organically determined behavior pattern and the spe cial defensive and adaptational mechanisms of the particular adolescent to the people and situations which surround him. Proper diagnosis and treatment call for a manifold approach, herein described.
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