Presented is research to support the orthomolecular rather than the psychodynamic approach to treating schizophrenia, psychoses, and allied disorders in children. The orthomolecular approach, also known as orthomolecular psychiatry, is reported to involve the administration of megavitamins (following a study to determine biochemical needs),…

Twenty-three psychotic children, ranging in age from 5 to 16, were interviewed in half-hour play sessions designed to elicit statements using the pronouns "I,""you," and "he" to express the concepts of possession, action, and description. (Author/SBH)

On the basis of a search of the literature and extensive inquiries to clinicians, cases that contained any information concerning possible neuropathologic changes in cases of childhood autism or psychosis were catalogued. (Author/SBH)

The intellectual level of parents of psychotic children in residential treatment at the Ittelson Center was investigated in a sample of 48 mothers with a mean full scale I Q (FIQ) of 109.2 and of 43 fathers with a mean FIQ of 116.3 on the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence scale. (Author/MC)

Implications from production of depressive behaviors in young monkeys were made for the study of child psychoses. (CB)

A treatment program for psychotic and autistic children in which parents are helped to function as primary developmental agents is described and evaluated. (Author)