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The Unobserved Observer

THOMAS E. ALLEN, MD; JEROME D. GOODMAN, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1966;15(6):649-653.

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THE PURPOSE of this paper is to bring to attention a relatively unused resource in child psychodiagnostics—home movies. The use of home movies for validating reconstructive impressions in the psychoanalysis of adults as well as their use as a tool in adult therapy has been discussed by Serota.¹ In this paper the difficulties in obtaining an accurate verbal anamnesis on children are reviewed, as well as some of the common supplements and checks on the parents' report. Home movies are discussed in terms of their usefulness in validating the developmental history with its importance for the common differential diagnosis between functional and organic disease. A case illustration is presented. Finally, the use of home movies in more purely psychogenic disorders is considered.

Problems of Gathering Historical Material

The importance of an accurate history is that at times it can make the diagnosis, and at all times it effects . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 27, 1966.

Reprint requests to Rte 2, Box 125, Ashland, Ky 41101 (Dr. Allen).

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