In: Handbook of Child and Adult Psychopathology 1990; 99-114
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Reprinted from Handbook of Child and Adult Psychopathology, M. Hersen and C.G. Last (eds.), "Childhood schizophrenia", I. Kolvin, T.P. Berney, O.J. Yoeli, pp. 99-114, (© Pergamon,1990).
Abstract:
The traditional concept of "schizophrenia," previously employed to encompass any psychotic process that was neither manic nor depressive, led to two thrusts in childhood classification: The first was the now discredited concept of unitary psychosis (Fish, 1977); the second was the extensive eponymous labelling of childhood syndromes regarded as psychotic (Kolvin, 1971).