temper tantra

Temper tantra were associated with restlessness and quarreling with others to the extent of 50 per cent. […] It appears that temper tantra occur most frequently among the younger and middle children, who have older siblings to annoy them and prevent them from attaining their wishes.

1937, Ira S. Wile, Ann B. Jones, “Ordinal Position and the Behavior Disorders of Young Children”, in Carl Murchison, editor, The Pedagogical Seminary and Journal of Genetic Psychology: Child Behavior, Animal Behavior, and Comparative Psychology, volume 51, Provincetown, Mass.: The Journal Press, pages 64 and 72

No definite influence is shown by ordinal positions; results of the Stanford Binet scale showed that the children were normal intellectually, in all groups, and several traits, as temper tantra, quarrels with others, restlessness, etc., were as common among the low I. Q. group as the high I. Q. group.

1940 January, James J. Brooks, “Ordinal Position and the Behavior Disorders of Young Children. I. S. Wile and A. B. Jones. Journal of Genetic Psychology. 51:61-93. 1937.”, in Criminal Psychopathology, volume 1, number 3, page 290

The child of such parents protests by what are called “early neurotic traits.” These consist of prolonged enuresis, thumb-sucking or fear of the dark, nail biting, frequent nightmares, sleep walking and sleep talking, stammering or twitching, temper tantra, being truant from home or school, and lying and stealing.

1944 April, Joel Milam Hill, “Nervous Reactions in Naval War Time Personnel”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 43, number 4, Portland, Ore.; Seattle, Wash.; Boise, Ida.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 115, column 1

The crucial trauma seems to have taken place around the uncontrolled, and seductive stimulations which took place in all phases of libidinal development, which led to a breakdown of ego mastery, and the release of aggression in temper tantra and other destructive ways, some of them self-destructive.

1955, David Crocker, “The Study of a Problem of Aggression”, in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, volume X, New York, N.Y.: International Universities Press, Inc., →LCCN, section “Clinical Presentations”, page 334

Likewise, Kanner (17) and Low (18) point to the good prognosis of the infants and small children having temper tantra and breath-holding spells.

1960, James F. Bosma, “[Roentgenologic Studies of Respiration in Infants] Glossopharyngeal Respiration as a Part of Focal Seizures of the Pharyngeal Area in an Infant”, in Acta Pædiatrica, volume 49, Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell Boktryckeri AB, page 60, column 1