The editor of the new quarterly, The Nervous Child, devotes this double issue to a symposium on the still highly contested question of schizophrenia in childhood.

In her introductory remarks the coeditor, Lauretta Bender, points to the fact that the diagnosis of schizophrenia in childhood, which hitherto had been made by exclusion of any other diagnostic possibility, finally can be decided upon by positive criteria. The schizophrenic process in children reveals a characteristic pathology in every field of integrative functioning of the central nervous system. The disturbance should be conceived as a focal disturbance in patterns of behavior reflected through all levels of integration. Dr. Bender