A Survey of Child Psychiatry. Edited on behalf of the Child Guidance Council by R. G. Gordon, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P.Ed. Contributed by Contemporary British Authorities. (Pp. 278; 2 tables. 10/6 net). London: Oxford University Press, 1939. To attempt in two hundred and sixtyeight pages, as this book does, a survey of Child Psychiatry by twenty-one different contemporary British authorities, is no...

The publisher's "blurb" claims that Dr. Glover's 12,000 word monograph is an attempt at a systematic classification of the mental disorders of children. "The concepts of 'psycho-somatic disease' and of 'child-psychosis'" the "blurb" continues hopefully, "are examined in some detail and their place in a hierarchy of pathological formations clarified." We are also told that the scope and limitati...

This posthumously published book presents one of the most important contributions that Donald Winnicott made to clinical practice. He described it as the application of psychoanalysis to child psychiatry. Details are given of the treatment of twenty-one children, and the des

Research is another key component to our commitment to improving the lives of children and adolescents with severe mental illnesses. We foster a wide and growing range of investigations. Basic genetic and neuroscience research focuses on how the normal brain develops and why and how that development sometimes goes awry. Our clinical researchers are seeking to develop better tools for early, pre...

This has been a pivotal year in Canadian psychiatry. On September 29, 2009, after many years of relentless efforts and lobbying by the Canadian Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (CAPL), the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada finally recognized forensic psychiatry as a subspecialty in psychiatry. Together with the academies of child psychiatry and geriatric psychia...

1 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany, 2 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany, 3 Department of Neuroimaging, Central Institute of Mental Health Medical Faculty...