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Autism and Childhood Psychosis

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Comprehensive Handbook of Psychopathology

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The term psychosis has been used to categorize the psychological disorders of both children and adults. Similarly, the adjective psychotic has been used to describe particular behaviors of individuals of all ages. Although childhood and adult psychotic disorders are linked by certain commonalities, for the most part, they are separate syndromes associated with very different behaviors. In adults, psychotic disturbances include schizophrenia and major affective disorders such as depression (see Chapters 13 and 15 in this volume). Childhood psychotic disorders include infantile autism and other pervasive developmental disorders described in the past by such terms as symbiotic psychosis (Mahler, 1952, 1958); autistic psychopathy (Asperger, 1944; Van Krevelin, 1971; Wolff, 1971); atypical child syndrome (Rank, 1959); pseudodefective, pseudoneurotic, and pseudopsychopathic disorders (Bender, 1941); and organic psychoses, such as Heller’s disease (Heller, 1930). It is generally felt that some adult psychoses, such as schizophrenia, may develop during childhood (e.g., Hanson & Gottesman, 1976). The epidemiological and descriptive characteristics of disorders with primarily adult onset have generally been included as part of the adult syndromes to which they are related. The question of whether other adult psychoses, such as depression or bipolar disorders, occur during childhood is still controversial (Anthony & Scott, 1960; Lefkowitz & Burton, 1978).

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