Before revision: In Dibs, an account of a child therapy, Virginia Axline considered that perhaps the parents, "quite unconsciously...chose to see Dibs as a mental defective rather than as an intensified personification of their own emotional and social inadequacy".Virginia Axline, Dibs In Search of Self (Penguin 1975) page 80 A child may be regarded as a bully and a troublemaker in school and labeled a "problem child", when he may in fact be expressing conflicts and problems, such as abuse at home, by acting out and being "bad".
After revision: In Dibs, an account of a child therapy, Virginia Axline considered that perhaps the parents, "quite unconsciously...chose to see Dibs as a mental defective rather than as an intensified personification of their own emotional and social inadequacy".Virginia Axline, Dibs In Search of Self (Penguin 1975) page 80