Frontier Justice: A Contribution to the Theory of Child Battery
WILLIAM R. FLYNN M.D.1
1 Private practice, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, U.C.L.A. School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif.
Child abuse, the author believes, is often dependent upon structural and dynamic elements within the adult. He reports two cases of mothers who beat one of their children and concludes that defective defense structures of the ego are frequently responsible for child abuse; abusing parents. he finds, tend to project their anger onto their children, while denying and repressing it in themselves.
