Schizophrenia childhood type and autism

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Thanks for the many information so far!

The information was helpful and I found it interesting, too.

I wanted to have some kind of sources like these to explain it to others. I already knew that it's true, especially because some people have been diagnosed with this schizophrenia childhood type but have an ASD instead, but this rather individual evidence is often not convincing to other people.

anbuend wrote:

That is Autism and Child Psychosis (1972). In it she has a chart in which sets out 30 features which differentiate early infantile autism and childhood schizophrenia.

In The Psychoanalytical Quarterly (1944) there is an abstract by Margaret M. Mahler of The Nervous Child I, 1941, pp.137-250, which was a double issue devoted to a symposium on the question of schizophrenia in childhood.

She writes: http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=paq.013.0131b .

In Child Psychiatry, third edition, 1957, Leo Kanner mentions "Bradley's 'biography' of Gwen Brown (who presented all the characteristics of early infantile autism)." In that book Early Infantile Autism is a section of almost four pages in a 26 page chapter entitled Schizophrenia.

anbuend wrote: I had quoted from Schizophrenia: A scientific delusion in which Mary Boyle argues that Then I made the comment by which I meant that autism can be said to be an abstract concept inferred from overt behaviour or from verbal reports of behaviour etc, not that it is like schizophrenia.