www.psychspace.com心理学空间网 Case 8
Alfred L. was brought by his mother in November, 1935, at 3½ years of age with this complaint:
He has gradually shown a marked tendency toward developing one special interest which will completely dominate his day’s activities. He talks of little else while the interest exists. He frets when he is not able to indulge in it (by seeing it, coming in contact with it, drawing pictures of it), and it is difficult to get his attention because of his preoccupation.... there has also been the problem of an overattachment to the world of objects and failure to develop the usual amount of social awareness.
Alfred was born in May, 1932, three weeks before term. For the first two months, “The feeding formula caused considereble concern but then he gained rapidly and became an unusually large and vigorous baby.”He sat up at 5 months and walked at 14.
Language developed slowly; he seemed to have no interest in it. He seldom tells experience. He still confuses pronouns. Whenever asks questions in the form of questions (with the appropriate inflection), since he talked, there has been a tendency to repeat over and over word or statement. He almost never says a sentence without repeating it. Yesterday, when looking at a picture, he said many times, “Some cows standing in the water.” We counted fify repetitions, then he stopped after several more and then began over and over.
He did a good deal of “worrying”:
Alfred L. was brought by his mother in November, 1935, at 3½ years of age with this complaint:
He has gradually shown a marked tendency toward developing one special interest which will completely dominate his day’s activities. He talks of little else while the interest exists. He frets when he is not able to indulge in it (by seeing it, coming in contact with it, drawing pictures of it), and it is difficult to get his attention because of his preoccupation.... there has also been the problem of an overattachment to the world of objects and failure to develop the usual amount of social awareness.
Alfred was born in May, 1932, three weeks before term. For the first two months, “The feeding formula caused considereble concern but then he gained rapidly and became an unusually large and vigorous baby.”He sat up at 5 months and walked at 14.
Language developed slowly; he seemed to have no interest in it. He seldom tells experience. He still confuses pronouns. Whenever asks questions in the form of questions (with the appropriate inflection), since he talked, there has been a tendency to repeat over and over word or statement. He almost never says a sentence without repeating it. Yesterday, when looking at a picture, he said many times, “Some cows standing in the water.” We counted fify repetitions, then he stopped after several more and then began over and over.
He did a good deal of “worrying”: