The Two Camps in Child Psychiatry: A Report from a Psychiatrist-Father of an Autistic and Retarded Child
JOHN E. KYSAR M.D.1
1 Associate professor of psychiatry and director, University of Illinois Health Service, Box 4348, Chicago, Ill. 60680
The author's experience with his own son and with other seriously disturbed children has led him to the observation that there are two camps in child psychiatry: the psychogenic-nonorganic group and the psychologicorganic group. He feels that the inability of the one camp to synthesize the genetic-organic elements with the psychogenic-functional can be detrimental to the child, his family, and the schools and agencies which work with them.
