Clinical studies in benign and malignant cases of childhood psychosis (schizophrenia-like).

Mahler, Margaret S.; Ross, John; Fries, Zira de

doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1949.tb05149.x

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“…Psychoanalytic schools of thought have investigated the genesis of borderline pathology. As early as the 1940s Mahler et al. (1949) identified a group of children presenting with ego and object relational pathology far more severe than neurotic children, whilst less severe than those children diagnosed with psychotic disorders.…”

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“…Psychoanalytic schools of thought have investigated the genesis of borderline pathology. As early as the 1940s Mahler et al (1949) identified a group of children presenting with ego and object relational pathology far more severe than neurotic children, whilst less severe than those children diagnosed with psychotic disorders. This led to speculation by Mahler and colleagues that they were witnessing the early prodromal phases of later schizophrenic disorders with the borderline psychopathology the earliest overt symptoms that could be identified.…”

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Borderline pathology in children and adolescents

Meekings

O’Brien

2004

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Mental health nurses have historically been pessimistic about and often unsympathetic towards clients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. By the time these clients reach adult mental health services their behaviours are often difficult to manage and they often suffer significant re-victimization by health services. Questions need to be raised about how best to avert the consolidation of the problems associated with the disorder. This paper explores the concept of "borderline pathology" in children and adolescents and examines the best available evidence for utilizing an early identification and intervention model for children and adolescents who exhibit this constellation of symptoms.

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Borderline pathology in children and adolescents

Meekings

O’Brien

2004

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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“…Dereistic thinking, feeling and action may be evident. These may be seen in the other syndromes and consist of "the direct manifestations of the primary process, the id, appearing on the surface of behaviour" (17). They are thus determined by inner meanings and considerations and appear illogical and strange to the normal observer who cannot understand them.…”

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“…Sometimes the child was known to be schizophrenic previously and passes from the earlier state into one of pseudo neurotic schizophrenia. More commonly there is sub-acute illness manifesting up to about the tenth year (17) and no serious concern about the child may have been expressed previously.…”

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A Review of Schizophrenia in Childhood

Alderton

1966

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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Schizophrenia may be viewed as a defect in organization resulting from varying combinations of genetic, organic, intrafamilial and social influences. A number of clinical syndromes are described and their differential diagnosis considered. The clinical picture will usually change as the child grows older. Laboratory investigations including EEG. are not helpful. At whatever age the schizophrenic child is seen, the following difficulties are most likely to be encountered: 1) Lack of firm self-identity, disturbed body image and lack of clear ego boundaries. This may be directly apparent or may be determined by the use of projective methods or drawings. These difficulties constitute the core problem and are essential to the diagnosis. 2) Dereistic feeling, thinking and behaviour. 3) The simultaneous presence of impaired and precocious psychological functioning. 4) A loss of normal interests or the appearance of unusual or regressive ones. 5) Language disturbances in content or in rhythm, intonation, pitch, stress or volume. 6) Deficient social relationships with impaired capacity to empathize and a tendency to withdrawal. Certainty about individual identity and what lies outside and inside the ego is essential for normal relationships. Awareness of the changing clinical features of childhood schizophrenia and careful examination for basic problems in identity and distinction of internal and external reality will help in arriving at a diagnosis.

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“…Other writers have relied less on symptom description and more on underlying dynamics formulated from psychoanalytic and object relations theories to delineate borderline conditions in children (Mahler, Ross, & De Fries, 1949; Pine, 1974;Leichtman & Shapiro, 1983). They suggested that such children have lacked early mother nurturance necessary for appropriate development.…”

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Rorschach Assessment of Borderline Children

Pfefferbaum¹,

Mullins²,

Rhoades³

et al. 1987

VJRL

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Projective testing may provide the clinician with a valuable context in which childhood borderline conditions may be investigated. The purpose of this study was to determine if Rorschach scores could be useful in diagnosing borderline disorders. Rorschach scores from a group of 13 borderline children and 10 conduct disorder children were compared using a step-down discriminate analysis. The results indicated that children in these two groups could be correctly classified beyond chance levels using Rorschach scores. Three variable, content analysis, human movement, and animal movement were the strongest contributors in separating the two groups. The Rorschach measure of form quality (i.e., adequacy of perception) was notable in that it failed to produce any independent discriminatory power in this analysis. As in the case of adult borderline testing using the Rorschach, novel scoring procedures, used in conjunction with standard scoring procedures may lead to further clarification of childhood borderline disorders.

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Clinical studies in benign and malignant cases of childhood psychosis (schizophrenia-like).

Cited by 86 publications

References 15 publications

Borderline pathology in children and adolescents

Borderline pathology in children and adolescents

A Review of Schizophrenia in Childhood

Rorschach Assessment of Borderline Children

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