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Childhood Psychosis

A Review of 100 Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

E. Mildred Creak*
Affiliation:
Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, W.C.1

Extract

A working party (B.M.J., 1961) recently formulated nine points which they felt distinguished the early childhood psychosis or schizophrenic syndrome of childhood, and this paper describes some features of 100 such patients seen at Great Ormond Street. The nine criteria, which were strictly applied, can be summarized as follows: 1. gross and sustained impairment of emotional relationships with people;

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1963 

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