British Journal of Psychiatry 1971; 118:381-384
Cite as:
I. Kolvin, "Studies in childhood pyschoses: Diagnostic criteria and classification", British Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 118, pp. 381-384, (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971).
Abstract:
Until the last decade there was considerable confusion about the nosology of childhood psychoses. As Kanner (1958) has pointed out, certain psychodynamically orientated writers (Szurek, 1956; Beres, 1956) have eschewed the important operation of differential diagnosis. This has led to the notion of 'equality schizophrenias' (Darr and Worden, 1951) and thus to the idea of a single psychosis of childhood.