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Intellect, Neurologic Status, Perinatal Risk, Prognosis, and Family Pathology

Martin Gittelman, PhD; Herbert G. Birch, MD, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1967;17(1):16-25.

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EVER SINCE De Sanctis¹ differentiated a group of children designated as dementia praecocissima from among the mentally subnormal, debate has raged as to the validity of the subgrouping and the origins and course of the designated disturbance. Over the years two principal positions have emerged. One view^2-6 has argued that the development of a psychosis in childhood is underlain by organismic factors particularly reflected in atypical central nervous system (CNS) development and organization. The other^7-10 views such disorder as stemming primarily from disturbed interpersonal relations, and in particular from seriously disordered relations between the child and his parents.

Between these extremes a number of intermediate positions have also been taken.^11-14 Such intermediate conceptualizations have tended either to see the pattern of behavioral disturbance as the possible end result of independent influences (eg, due in some cases to brain damage, but . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Research and Psychological Service, League School and Childrens Mental Health Center, Brooklyn, NY; and the Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan 23, 1967.

Reprint requests to Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Eastchester Rd and Morris Pk Ave, Bronx, NY 10461 (Dr. Birch).

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