A. The neurotic individual may have had some special vulnerability as an in- fan

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A. The neurotic individual may have had some special vulnerability as an in- fant. Perhaps he was ill a great deal and was given care that singled him out from other children. Perhaps he walked or talked much later-or earlier-- than children were expected to, and this evoked unusual treatment. The child whose misshapen feet must be put in casts or the sickly little boy who never can play ball may get out of step with his age mates and with the ex- pectations parents and other adults have about children. Or a child may be very unusually placed in his family. He may be the only boy with six sisters, or a tiny child born between two lusty sets of twins. Or the source of the child's difficulties may be a series of events that deeply affected his relations to people-the death of his mother at the birth of the next child or the prolonged illness or absence of his father. Or a series of coincidences-an accident to a parent, moving to a new town and a severe fright-taken to- gether may alter the child's relationship to the world. MARGARFT MFAD, from Some Persanal Yiews

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A neurotic individual have somewhat different infancy or childhood than normal children. The reason may be developmental arrest, or delayed growth and development. He may also have unusual situation in family like having so many sisters or loss of mother or father at infancy. An accident or trauma at infancy along with any of the above can lead to development of altered relationship with world I.e. neurotic personality.

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