In 1952 Bender and Freedman presented a statistical study of a large number of schizophrenic children who had grown to adulthood. The present paper contains clinical descriptions of six adults earlier diagnosed as having childhood

schizophrenia. All were clearly schizophrenic, but five were not hospitalized at the time of the study. During adolescence there were periods of remission. The discussion by Annemarie Weil reflects her opinion that once a child is schizophrenic it is always schizophrenic. She further comments that in handling such patients in adolescence one must be very cautious and conservative in approach and respect their fragile defenses.