RT Journal
T1 The five sisters: A study of child psychology
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD May 6
VO 112
IS 18
SP 1859
OP 1859
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800180083041
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800180083041
AB The author of this book, a recognized psychologist, has done a great deal of work with preschool children and constructive psychologic work in the study of twins, so that it seems fortunate that he was the person selected for the Dionne quintuplets. He has written a most interesting book. It is rather light, but he has not hesitated to put in semitechnical diagrams and charts showing the growth and development of these five unusual children. He deals particularly with the psychologic factors involved in their growth and explains in a lucid and sensible fashion the fact that in most of the features which would be considered important in evaluating a child's mentality, for example the use of words and psychomotor adjustment, they have been retarded. He attributes this particularly to the fact that they were premature and shows that recently they have had a tendency to catch up in an