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An Investigation into the Part Played by Organic Factors in Childhood Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

D. Vorster
D. Vorster*
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Kingseat Hospital, Aberdeen
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An investigation into the factors concerned in the etiology and pathogenesis of childhood schizophrenia is fraught with difficulties in numerous areas. Encountered are such problems as the diagnosis itself; doubt that psychoses exist in childhood; the existence of the duality organic or functional schools of thought, and of frequent contradictory findings reported by various groups of investigators in the field.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 443 , April 1960 , pp. 494 - 522
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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