Early child psychiatry

George Stein
2010 British Journal of Psychiatry  
Disturbed and disobedient children can cause much distress to their parents, sometimes precipitating maternal depression. In the Book of Proverbs the word 'fool' denotes a character corresponding to the modern concept of personality disorder (mainly antisocial). Parental grief or depression associated with having a fool as a child is described in three separate entries:
doi:10.1192/bjp.197.2.105 pmid:20679261 fatcat:gzvl7eqd6jcn7pdewr6ztqvtte