PEDIATRICS Vol. 49 No. 5 May 1972, pp. 796-798
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INFANTILE AUTISM (Proceedings of the Indiana University Colloquium), edited by Don W. Churchill, M.D., Gerald D. Alpern, Ph.D., and Marian K. DeMyer, M.D. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas, 1971, 340 pp., $15.50

Martha F. Leonard M.D.1

1 New Haven, Connecticut

Since infantile autism is a puzzling and challenging condition, or group of conditions, with causes uncertain or complex and treatment often unsatisfactory, one approaches a new book on the subject with eagerness and a hope of finding some new answers or clarification. Infantile Autism is a compilation of invited papers and discussions by 26 English and American workers in the field of autism, who participated in a colloquium at Indiana University in 1968. The colloquium focussed on some central questions: Is infantile autism a clinical entity?