EARLY INFANTILE AUTISM IS THE EARLIEST OF THE SCHIZOPHRENIC REACTIONS KNOWN TO OCCUR IN MAN
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The Fathers of Autistic Children
Leon Eisenberg, M.D.
Children's Psychiatric Service, Harriet Lane Home, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Volume XXVII, pp. 715-724 (1957)
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The syndrome of early infantile autism, first described by Kanner in 1943 (1), occupies a position of considerable interest for clinical investigation. Predominant opinion would appear to hold that autism is to be properly classified among the group of childhood schizophrenias (2), al-though dissenting viewpoints should be noted (3, 4). If this nosologic allocation be granted, then early infantile autism is the earliest of the schizophrenic reactions known to occur in man, being evident usually within the first and certainly by the second year of life. As such, it offers the implied promise that analysis of its etiology may cast additional light upon the general problem of the schizophrenias.
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