This thoughtful, compassionate book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Southern Appalachian child -- his mental disorders and his adaptive strengths. Drawing upon his extensive fieldwork as a clinical child psychiatrist in Eastern Kentucky, Dr. Looff suggests means by which these children can be helped to bridge the gap between their subculture and the mainstream of American life today.The children described in this book, the author points out, are in a real sense not ""all children."" Since no child grows up in a vacuum, the children of Eastern Kentucky cannot be understoo