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An Approach to the Problem of Fear in Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Hilda Weber
Hilda Weber*
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Institute of Medical Psychology and to the British Hospital for Mental Disorders and Nervous Diseases
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A one-sided approach to any question, which is always suspect, becomes a very real danger when it concerns medicine. It is the purpose of this paper to draw attention to certain half-truths which have arisen in this way in connection with fear. Fear, like pain, is a danger-signal, called into existence to draw to the individual's notice the presence of some threat to his welfare. It has, therefore, ultimately a protective purpose with a direct relation to self-preservation.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 82 , Issue 337 , March 1936 , pp. 136 - 147
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1936 

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