RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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ordinary behavior and attitudes. An important
feature of the project is the opportunity it affords
for teaching medical students, interns, and
young pediatricians the methods of interpreting
and dealing with the social, moral, intellectual,
• and emotional abnormalities of childhood.
Dr. Leo Kanner, a former Rockefeller Foundation
fellow, who
is in charge of the study,
plans to continue observations on individual children
over a period offiveto ten years in the hope
of gaining valuable information on the relation
of early maladjustment difficulties to the development
of mental disease in adult life.
Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital
Training and Research in Psychiatry
Excellent opportunities for training in psychiatry
are offered by the Institute of the Pennsylvania
Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The institute is a division of the hospital engaged
in the study and treatment of the milder
mental abnormalities and adjustment problems.
In addition, it carries on research in the hospital's
Department of Mental Diseases and in a
small school which the hospital maintains for
children of good intelligence who
present behavior
problems. Members of its staff act as
consultants in psychiatry for the schools and
colleges in and
near Philadelphia. Its studies
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