Abstract
Summary 1. A fund of evidence indicates that improper hospital management often results in psychiatric disturbance. 2. Iatrogenic psychopathology is believed to be a major public health problem. 3. Many hospitals have taken steps to institute psychologically prophylactic management, but the number appears relatively few. 4. Though there is general agreement, either for mental health or humane reasons, on providing adequate psychological care of pediatric patients, hospitals do not develop and institute the necessary management methods for reducing children's fear and emotional distress to an absolute minimum. 5. If iatrogenic psychopathology is to be prevented, it seems necessary to inquire into and formulate the dynamics of the hospital resistance to modern psychological management and prophylaxis.
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