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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.

While crippling autism may be present in a range of illnesses with psychological and organic etiology, this symptom occurs most frequently when a child has been forced, from infancy or an early age, to live and to grow in his own private world due to a severe perceptual or intellectual handicap. If this symptomatic autism is anticipated, diagnosed, and treated early, the child may develop in a relatively healthy and productive way. Without appropriate treatment the symptomatic autistic child is liable to be increasingly handicapped; eventually such a child is almost indistinguishable from children who are autistic due to other causes. This paper highlights some of the most common causes leading to symptomatic autism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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

The article presents a case study of an eight-year-old American autistic girl who diagnosed with Schizophrenic Reaction Childhood Type in England. The Music and Creative Arts Department at Essex County Overbrook Hospital has given strong attention to a child to treat hallucinations, violent tantrums and self-directed aggression and hostility. It found that physicians were established a working therapeutic relationship with her based on acceptance and sensitivity to her actions.

The article discusses the techniques used in a school program for children coming from early infantile autism. When play therapy and occupational therapy seems less effective in treating autistic children, improvement of the program has been initiated through study and experimentation. The program includes a long duration of admission for autistic children in the hospital with cooperation from the staffs in psychotherapy and ward activities. Tutoring and group teaching techniques were used stimulate progress in many areas of development. The willingness of the autistic kid to learn serve as a guide for actual implementation of pressure to learn academic material.

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.

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]

The article features two new quarterly journals, "Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia" and "Journal of Applied Social Psychology." These journals will be released and published in early 1971. "Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia" will focus attention on understanding disorders which produce childhood psychopathology. "Journal of Applied Social Psychology" will also concentrate on behavioral science research and its applicability to current problems of society. The subscriptions for each journal can be obtained through Scripta Publishing Corp.