Migratory states in childhood

Abstract

A study of migrating children has been recorded and from it these deductions have been drawn: -That a Migratory State exists as a definable entity. It is defined as a state in which a child wanders outside the bounds of its normal habitat as the result of an impulsion occuring in a depression.It occurs in children whose inheritance is defective emotionally intellectually or psychosomatically. It occurs in families tending to breed defectives or with a poor survival rate.It may be considered as a sign that the family will die out in a i'ew generations.It is dependent upon a mother deprivation and a broken home is concomittent.It is connected with the love or sexual life of the child.It is an act symbolic of death or or intercourse to lead to a new life or rebirth.It is generically the same as migrations in the animal kingdom and has many points of similarity with the fugue states described by Stengel.