An Investigation into the Part Played by Organic Factors in Childhood Schizophrenia

Abstract

An investigation into the factors concerned in the etiology and pathogenesis of childhood schizophrenia is fraught with difficulties in numerous areas. Encountered are such problems as the diagnosis itself; doubt that psychoses exist in childhood; the existence of the duality organic or functional schools of thought, and of frequent contradictory findings reported by various groups of investigators in the field.