The author reviews the literature on childhood schizophrenia and then gives some observations from the experience at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric

Institute with two hundred and three schizophrenic children. The parents of one hundred thirty-nine children undertook collaborative therapy, the majority for periods ranging up to four years. Of note was the substantiation of Kanner's description of the parents of autistic children as being 'successfully autistic adults'. The disorder of the psychotic child is seen as representing both identification with and futile rebellion against the disorder of each parent.