Curing depends on the patient more than it does on the thera-
pist. There are so many failures among people who go to ther-
apy because they have been bullied by relatives into going. If,
for instance, a man succeeds in sending a reluctant wife to be
analyzed, she quite naturally goes with a grudge. My husband
doesn't think me good enough. He wants me to be changed,
and I don't like it.

The same difficulty applies to the young criminal when, un-
der duress, he is compelled to undergo therapy. Therapy for
both adolescents and adults must be desired by the patient.

Freedom alone, with no therapy added, will cure most delin-
quencies in a child. Freedom--not license--not sentimentality.
Freedom alone will not cure pathological cases. It will barely
touch cases of arrested development. But freedom will work
when it is practiced in a children's boarding school--provided it
is practiced all the time.

Some years ago, I had a youth sent to me who was a real
crook who stole cleverly. A week after his arrival, I received a
telephone message from Liverpool. "This is Mr. X [a well-
known man in England ] speaking. I have a nephew at your
school. He has written me asking if he can come to Liverpool
for a few days. Do you mind?"

"Not a bit," I answered, "but he has no money. Who will pay
his fare? Better get in touch with his parents."

The following afternoon the boy's mother called me up and
said that she had received a phone call from Uncle Dick. So far
as she and her husband were concerned, Arthur could go to
Liverpool. They had looked up the fare and it was twenty-eight

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