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An Approach to the Problem of Fear in Children
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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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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