An obsolete concept, historically used for childhood mental disorders thought to be a form of schizophrenia. It was in earlier versions of DSM but is now included within the broad concept of PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS.
    

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Revolution in a mental hospital / designed then printed by Carol Marty.

Children at risk for schizophrenia : a longitudinal perspective / edited by Norman F. Watt [and others].

Schizophrenia in childhood / Charles Bradley.

Un cas de psychose infantile : étude psychanalytique / par Serge Lebovici et Joyce McDougall.

Children without childhood : a study of childhood schizophrenia / Benjamin B. Wolman.

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Schizophrenia, Childhood

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Revolution in a mental hospital / designed then printed by Carol Marty.

Children at risk for schizophrenia : a longitudinal perspective / edited by Norman F. Watt [and others].

Schizophrenia in childhood / Charles Bradley.

Un cas de psychose infantile : étude psychanalytique / par Serge Lebovici et Joyce McDougall.

Children without childhood : a study of childhood schizophrenia / Benjamin B. Wolman.