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This article constitutes a translation from the Russian of G.E. Sukhareva’s research report entitled (in English) ‘Toward the problem of the structure and dynamics of children’s constitutional psychopathies (Schizoid forms)’, which she delivered at the ‘behavioral’ conference in Leningrad in early 1930. Lev Vygotsky also presented on ‘difficult children’ in the same session of this conference. Sukhareva worked as a clinician for many years in residential and out-patient psychiatric settings at the Psycho-Neurological Institute in Moscow. This is (at least) the third of Sukhareva’s publications on schizoid children, preceding her subsequent work on schizophrenia and oligophrenia (intellectual disability). Here she offers new case material, and further theoretical elaboration, concerning children diagnosed as schizoid, who closely resembled what we now think of as autistic children. We include background information useful to contextualize this work historically, and commentary on some of the questions raised for the ‘history of autism’ by Sukhareva’s work.
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New, W.S., Kyuchukov, H. Sukhareva’s (1930) ‘Toward the problem of the structure and dynamics of children’s constitutional psychopathies (Schizoid forms)’: a translation with commentary. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 32, 1453–1461 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-01948-1
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