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This article presents information of various books and journals related to psychology. The paper "Notes on the psychotherapy of infantile autism" by Micheal Fordham is an account of his work and research with autism in children. "Psicologia della lettura" by Mario Trevi is a thought-provoking paper, which presents some intriguing comparisons between reading and play. The paper "Working with a family in a Child Guidance setting" by P. Parsloe and D. Howell presents therapeutic work of psychiatrist and psychiatric social worker on psychotherapy of closely interdependent immature people.

Reviews the article 'Towards a Theory of Infantile Autism,' by Michael Fordham, published in the journal 'La Psychiatrie de l'Enfant.'

This study compared the conditioning of averaged evoked potentials in 1! psychotic and 11 normal children (57 experiments). Evoked potentials, like the blocking of alpha rhythm, can be conditioned by coupling a short sound of low intensity with an intense light flash. In normal children, the amplitude of the potential evoked by sound at the occipital region is small and quite variable. Its amplitude increases and its variability diminishes after coupling of sound and light. Also its form may resemble the potential evoked by light, especially in its rhythmic after-effects. In psychotic children auditory evoked responses are variable and small and remain so during the coupling of sound and light. Instead, these patients respond to the sound with a late slow wave, which is strong and generalized. It is particularly prominent during conditioning and resembles the slow waves which follow the visual evoked potentials in these autistic children. This slow wave can be experimentally reproduced in normal Ss by Psilocybine. It also resembles in certain ways the slow waves provoked by movement or its anticipation in normal Ss but it appears here during sensorial conditioning which requires no movement. We suspect that this slow wave may reflect a diffuse motor component in the perceptual and associative processes of these autistic children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the works performed by researcher T.V. Moore and other researchers in the field of autism and mental development in childhood. Definition given by Moore of autistic thinking; Experiments and tests standardized by Moore; Tests conducted based on Moore's tests.

Relates the birth of an embryo ego in an autistic girl. Identity; Psychotherapy; Process of imaginative activity; Dynamics of the transference.

The article presents a study, which aims to investigate interparental agreement on Rimland's Diagnostic Check List, Form E-1, for a relatively pathology-free, homogeneous sample of preschoolers. Secondly, data from such a sample could provide useful normative information if the published Check List is used for clinical or research purposes. The Rimland Diagnostic Check List (Form E-I) was administered to 31 parental couples of normal children, ages 35 years. Each parent answered the Check List independently. Interparental agreement for autism scores and for schizophrenia scores correlated .72 and .69 respectively.