childhood schizophrenia

childhood schizophrenia
schizophrenia-like symptoms with onset before puberty, characterized by autistic, withdrawn behavior, failure to develop an identity separate from the mother's, and gross developmental immaturity, a category that formerly included all types of childhood “psychosis” including symbiotic psychosis and infantile autism. DSM-IV, taking the position that there is no clear relationship between these disorders and adolescent and adult schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, calls them pervasive developmental disorders.

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