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Loners: The Life Path of Unusual Children
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Loners
Loners describes a unique group of solitary children who were unable to adapt to
the social and educational demands of school life. All were seen in a child
psychiatric setting over a twenty-year period. Some of these children were gifted;
most coped better once they had left school.
Sula Wolff brings together the results of a number of studies of these
‘schizoid’ children and illustrates the findings with detailed case histories. The
condition of the children is thought to represent a constitutional deviation of
personality development. It is discussed in relation to Asperger’s original
description of autistic psychopathy of childhood and in relation to current
diagnostic practices in child and adult psychiatry.
Loners makes the case for the clinical recognition of such children although
they are on the whole not nearly as impaired as those children who are currently
given a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome. Even when mildly affected, they and
their parents need a treatment approach which differs from that for children with
disorders due to adverse life experiences.
Loners will help psychiatrists and other professionals towards a realistic
approach to the treatment and education of people with this condition, both
children and adults.
Sula Wolff, a child psychiatrist, formerly at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children,
Edinburgh, is Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Department of
Psychiatry. She is the author of Children under Stress (1968; 2nd edn 1981) and
Childhood and Human Nature: The Development of Personality (1989).
Recent reviews:
‘Sula Wolff’s new book marks a refreshing step forward…it should be read by
everyone clinically or educationally involved with unusual children’
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
‘This book is an excellent example of the value of long-term clinical follow-up. It
should help all child guidance staff, including educational psychologists who first
meet these children at school, to have greater confidence in their response to
parents and teachers faced with these unusual children’
Young Minds Magazine
‘This book is eminently readable and holds the reader’s interest’
Lancet (North American Edition)
Loners
The Life Path of Unusual Children
Sula Wolff
London and New York
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First published 1995
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
© 1995 Sula Wolff
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or
utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now
known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in
any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing
from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book has been requested
ISBN 0-203-35939-9 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-37195-X (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-06504-6 (hbk)
ISBN 0-415-06665-4 (pbk)

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