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A Natural history of a psychotic illness in childhood

United Kingdom, 1958
film

Documented case from infancy onward. A chain of accidental circumstances provide a unique opportunity to obtain a visualised record of the gradual unfolding o..

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The Diagnosis of childhood schizophrenia

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Breakdown

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Child development: infants are individuals

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Life begins

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Through the eyes of a child

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Childhood: the enchanted years

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Early social behaviour

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Maternal deprivation in young children

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Autistic Syndrome 1

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Sequence and story

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A child grows: the first year

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Preface to a life

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Child guidance clinic [Abridged version]

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First steps

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