Modern Trends in Child Psychiatry

The seventeen chapters of this book were presented in 1943 and 1944 as a series of lectures at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital. Lecturers who are authorities in the field of child psychiatry were selected without regard for their psychologic orientation. This ranges from the psychoanalytic to the psychobiologic and the "living" social relationship between child and parent. Anxiety states, psychoneurotic, psychosomatic and psychotic disturbances and organic brain conditions are discussed. The newer diagnostic tools of the electroencephalogram and projective technics available to the psychiatrist receive consideration. The last portion of the lectures deals with various approaches to therapy. Play activities, the use of art production, school therapy, child analysis, child-parent therapy, group therapy and psychiatric social case work are considered. Many of the newer approaches and experimental attempts which are being tried are mentioned. As is inevitable in a book of this character there is some