Childhood schizophrenia and allied conditions.

Abstract

1947 to 1957, he was a member of the staff of the Menninger Foundation, where he served as training analyst of the Topeka Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Ekstein received his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna, and began his psychoanalytic training in that city. He also received a Master's Degree in social case work from Boston University. He is an honorary member of the Alumni Association of the Menninger School of Psychiatry and the Los Angeles Child Psychiatric Association. He is a former President of the Topeka Psychoanalytic Society. Dr. Ekstein's major publications deal with the psychoanalysis of psychotic and borderline children and with clinical training. They include "The Space Child's Time Machine: on 'Reconstruction' in the Psychotherapeutic Treatment of a Schizophrenoid Child," "Observations on the Psychology of Borderline and Psychotic Children" (with Judith Wallerstein) , "Vicissitudes of the 'Internal Image' in the Recovery of a Borderline Schizophrenic Adolescent," and (with Robert Wallerstein) The Teaching and Learning of Psychotherapy. a Dr. Seymour W. Friedman is presently engaged in the private practice of psychiatry. He also supervises the psychotherapy of children and diagnostic and evaluation procedures on the staff of the Reiss-Davis Clinic for Child Guidance in Los Angeles, California. He is a candidate at the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Friedman completed his psychiatric residency at the Winter V. A. Hospital, Menninger School of Psychiatry. He was also a staff psychiatrist in the Department of Child Psychiatry at the Menninger Foundation. His publications include "Diagnostic Criteria in Childhood Schizophrenia" and (with Dr. Ekstein) "A Technical Problem in the Beginning Phase of Psychotherapy with a Borderline Psychotic Child" and "The Function of Acting Out, Play Action and Play Acting in the Psychotherapeutic Process."* W e have made use in this survcy of the following abstracting services or indexes:

Autistic Reactions in Early Childhood: Differential Diagnostic Considerations*

“…Central language disorders {Ingram, 1959;West, 1962). Childhood schizophrenia (Ekstein, Bryant and Friedman, 1958;Goldfarb, 1963). Chronic brain syndromes of diverse etiologies (Pollack, 1958;Bender, 1959;Creak, 1963), Constitutional faetors (Bergman and Escalona, 1949;Maliler and CJosliner, 1955).…”

Special training problems in psychotherapeutic work with psychotic and borderline children.

“…Freud (5,6) once spoke about the three "impossible" professions: educat ing, healing and governing. I para phrased him when speaking about the responsibility in training psychoanalysts (1), which combines all three "impos sible" professions. I would like to suggest that the training of psychotherapists who are to work with borderline and psy chotic children combines four "impos sible" professions.…”

Experiential group treatment of severely deprived latency-age children.

“…T HERE has been an increasing interest during the last two decades in the problem of children with severe ego pathology. They have variously been termed "severe non-neurotic ego disturbance," "borderline," "atypi cal," "pre-psychotic," "autistic" or "schizophrenic" (3). The treatment efforts described in the literature involve most fr equently the provision of a therapeutic environment in an institution.…”