Children at psychiatric risk / edited by E. James Anthony and Cyrille Koupernik.
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- [1974]
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Credit: Children at psychiatric risk / edited by E. James Anthony and Cyrille Koupernik. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Some Paradoxes Connected with Risk and Vulnerability Colette Chiland, M.D., Ph.D. (France) In the double-entry table constructed by Anthony [1], in which high and low risk are connected with maximal and minimal vulnerability, two categories seem especially pertinent to this presentation: children at high risk who seem relatively immune, and children at low risk who prove to be very vulnerable. An attempt is made here to under¬ stand and illustrate these two paradoxical outcomes from data drawn from a longitudinal study of 66 children selected at random from the general population, and from clinical material obtained in the practice of child psychiatry [5, 6, 8]. Two problems will be considered: Predictable risks for groups exposed to similar predicaments and amenable to statistical investigation. Unpredictable vulnerabilities that are a function of individual susceptibilities. Predictable Risks There are two main risks in a Western culture that threaten the child: the risk of becoming psychiatrically disturbed, and the risk of 23](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18021876_0052.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
