Psychosis of Infancy and Early Childhood, as Manifested by Children with Atypical Development

Abstract

PSYCHOSIS of infancy and early childhood has been studied for the past twenty years by a few investigators in highly specialized clinical settings. The fact that this severe disorder of human development is not more widely known and understood throughout the general medical realm, especially among physicians who deal with children, represents an unfortunate failure in intramural medical communication. Scientific papers dealing with infantile psychosis have appeared usually in journals limited to distribution within a particular specialty. Problems of terminology have further compounded the difficulties of dissemination, with various individual investigators coining diagnostic labels other than infantile psychosis that nevertheless . . .