The belief that a child's per sonality is more easily shapec than an adult's is branded as i "myth" by a Louisiana Sta.fe university jraxchiaJxist.
In a report to be publishec next fall by the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Ian Stevenson, admits that no assumptior of modern psychiatry enjoys wider acceptance, but declares there is no evidence to support it.
"We cannot say exactly when the modern emphasis on child-lood training and relative neglect of adult training began, but t belongs to comparatively recent times/' says Dr, Stevenson, Louisiana medical school's department of psychiatry and neurology.
"Children may be more impressionable than adults," Dr. Stevenson says, "but they also make a greater show of their emotions, and they don't retain harmful effects the way adults do.
