The first account of the syndrome Asperger described? Part 2: the girls

AbstractTranslation of G. E. Sukhareva ’s “Die Besonderheiten der schizoiden Psychopathien bei den Mädchen”, which appeared in 1927 in Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie as a continuation of “Die schizoiden Psychopathien”, previously translated by Sula Wolff. This second paper comprises five case studies of girls an d a discussion of the sex differences in the presentation of schizoid psychopathy, potentially what we would now consider part of the autism spectrum.

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00787-019-01371-z

Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - July 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research