| infantile autism and childhood schizophrenia: review of the issues from the sociocultural point of view. | after presenting an historical overview of the development of the concept of childhood psychosis, this paper discusses the various etiologies which have been offered to explain severe disturbances of childhood. reference is made to the nature/nurture polemic. in spite of the general belief that the etiology is biologically determined, particularly in infantile autism, the actual evidence tends to be meagre. furthermore, the literature includes a number of studies which have been found to be meth ... | 1983 | 6359455 |