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With an asthmatic attack the mother’s dominance is immediately brought to a
stop: “All demands and criticism of the child come to an end; the rival brothers
and sisters are a t abeyance and the child and his illness become the pivot of his
mother’s attention.” (p. 247). Burton feels that the asthma attack
