“…Numerous other studies argue the importance of parental pressure (Fry, 1957;Bakwin, 1958;Miller, Court, Walton, and Knox, 1960;and Bolande, 1969). Parental pressure is also discussed in studies such as that of Furman (1959), in which he advises practitioners how to handle parental pressure for operations, and also that of Lipton (1962), in which he undertakes a Freudian analysis of the psychological basis of parental desire for tonsillectomy.…”