Goldfarb .:. Childhood Schizophrenia

Goldfarb, William,
Childhood Schizophrenia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961. xxvi, 216 Seiten mit 48 Tabellen, Literaturverzeichnis und Register. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. 448 g

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* A Commonwealth Fund Book
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Goldfarb | Psychiatrie | Psychiatry | Schizophren

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This book reports the findings of research in childhood schizophrenia at the Henry Ittleson Center for Child Research in New York City. In an attempt to delineate corn, prehensively the cognitive, psychomotor, and speech deficiencies and potentialities of schizophrenic children, the research staff of the Center systematically studied over a period of several years a group of schizophrenics and a control group of normal children. Patterns of personal interaction within the families of the schizophrenic and normal children were also appraised by direct observation.
The study illuminated some of the obscurities of childhood schizophrenia, and among other things revealed that many more of the schizophrenic children had organic defects than the usual neurological examination had indicated. The differences in psychosocial adequacy between the families of schizophrenic children and those of normal children are also delineated. Dr. Goldfarb further offers a basis for definition of the differentiating psychodynamic features of individual schizophrenic children and for evaluating their changes in treatment.

William Goldfarb is Director of the Henry Ittleson Center for Child Research, and teaches at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. In 1943 he received the Devereux Award for original research in child psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association.

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