Lauretta Bender describes further her conception of childhood schizophrenia as a clinical entity which 'reveals pathology in behavior at every level and in every area of integration or patterning within the function of the central nervous system, be it vegetative, motor, perceptual, intellectual, emotional, or social'. The patterning of every functioning field is disturbed in a characteristic way with mixed tendencies to expansions and contractions, accelerations and regressions which follow configurational tendencies that are specific for schizophrenia. These disturbances are described in detail and include postural reflexes, art work, and tendencies in thought, speech and behavior, much of which has been delineated in previous papers by Bender and her co-workers.