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The Two Camps in Child Psychiatry: A Report from a Psychiatrist-Father of an Autistic and Retarded Child

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.1.103

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.

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