Evidence cited from therapy experience and descriptive findings of other investigators favors a relatively simple, parsimonious interpretation of school phobia. These children overvalue themselves and their achievements, and try to maintain their unrealistic self‐image. When their “power” is threatened in the school situation, they suffer anxiety, avoid the threat and try to maintain their narcissistic self‐fictions. A permissive mother frequently serves as refuge.
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