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October 1935

LEFT-HANDEDNESS: INTERCORRELATIONS WITH ENURESIS AND OTHER RELATED FACTORS IN SO-CALLED NORMAL CHILDREN

Author Affiliations

Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Psychiatry, Boston Psychopathic Hospital BOSTON; Psychiatric Social Worker, State Psychopathic Hospital ANN ARBOR, MICH.

Arch NeurPsych. 1935;34(4):758-763. doi:10.1001/archneurpsyc.1935.02250220062005
Abstract

Does left-handedness, with the realization of one's difference, give rise to a certain sensitivity, or rather is it one of the pathophysiologic reactions (a "benevolent stigma") of a discordant personality? The many points of view on this problem vary from that of Bauer,1 who considered left-handedness as a "degenerative stigma," to that of Quinan,2 who regarded left-handedness and general sinistrality as usually indicative of constitutional instability. It would seem likely to us that more meaning and value could be derived from some of the concepts if attempts were made to correlate left-handedness with more specific and definite variables rather than with such general and indefinite concepts as constitutional psychopathic states, the epilepsies and feeblemindedness.

In an earlier paper3 we reported our findings on the intercorrelations of enuresis and other factors in 475 so-called normal children at a camp. The data in the present study have to do

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