CHILD PSYCHIATRY. LEO KANNER

"Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact" (1943), by Leo Kanner

Leo Kanner published "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact" in 1943 in the journal Nervous Child. This article described the cases of eleven children with autism. Kanner described the behavior and upbringing of each child, aged two to eight, as well as the educational backgrounds of the children's parents. Though Eugen Bleuler, a professor at the University of Zürich and director of the B...

Sowing the seeds of the autism field: Leo Kanner (1943).

More than 65 years after Leo Kanner published his seminal article, research on autism continues to be an area of increasing interest. Although much progress has been made, this field is still in its infancy, and many avenues of research are just beginning to be pursued. Despite the time that has passed, the syndrome Kanner identified and his comments about the children he observed continue to h...

Child Psychiatry

Child Psychiatry

This is the first real volume to deal specifically with the psychiatry of children. There have been many volumes dealing with the mental hygiene of childhood, books that have had merit and value but which have lacked that appeal to make them of real practical value to the pediatrician. In his preface to this volume, Park strikes the keynote of the work in his statement that it "leads the pediat...

Child Psychiatry

Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Paediatrics, and Director, Children's Psychiatry Service, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Oxford. Second Edition. Blackwell Scientific Publications. 752 pp. 45s. Students of child guidance, of whatever professional discipline, are usually told that there is at present no satisfactory comprehensive text-book on Child Psychiatry. At firs...