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By Barry Newcombe and David F. Partlett. 628 pp. New York, Free Press, 1994. $39.95. ISBN 0-02-923245-7.

Children, and those who believe children have rights, are an unpopular bunch these days. Children who misbehave for any reason are even less well liked. A January 3, 1994, Wall Street Journal editorial warns us that a certain health care plan disguises social problems as mental illness, and the writer wonders whether the childhood psychiatric diagnosis "oppositional defiant disorder" is a "temperament flaw, which sounds suspiciously as if it could encompass what once earned the label `brat.' "

Lay skepticism about the legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis has long been reflected in the courts, which regard with suspicion the perceived tendency . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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