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Volume 331:1031 October 13, 1994 Number 15
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The Kaspar Hauser Syndrome of "Psychosocial Dwarfism": Deficient Statural, Intellectual, and Social Growth Induced by Child Abuse

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By John Money. 290 pp. Buffalo, N.Y., Prometheus Books, 1994. $25.95. ISBN 0-87975-754-X.

In 1828 Kaspar Hauser, a foundling, physically and intellectually stunted by abuse and neglect, was abandoned at the Haller Gate of the wall of the city of Nuremberg. The facts of his story tore a hole through another wall, the wall of denial of the severe abuse to which many children were being subjected. Much controversy resulted from that breach in the wall and the writings of those who studied it. This study and the alternating outrage and incredulity that it provoked are the subtext of this book, whose main subject is the syndrome of reversible hyposomatotropism due to abuse, . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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