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eLetters: I think you're all missing the point
In response to: Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. Milne

Greg Goodwin
Affiliation: Skidmore College
Posted on: December 19, 2000


I think you're all missing the point of this story. If clinical psychologists can find such a multitude of dysfunctional behavior in the beloved characters of Mr. Milne, think of how many they might find in, say, a perfectly normal kid! Something to think about in an age when perscriptions for antidepressants and Ritalin in children have doubled and even quadrupled over the last half decade.

 

 

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