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Psychiatric Disorders of Pre‐adolescence in Japan
Author(s) -
Kaku Reigetsu,
Kawata Motoko,
Wakimoto Kyoko,
Hanada Masanori
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1984.tb00350.x
Subject(s) - psychiatry , psychology , medicine
We have classified 200 pre‐adolescent patients, with whom we have met during the last three years, into the following four types: 1) school refusal and obsessive behavior, 2) psychosomatic disorders, 3) depressive reactions, and 4) schizophrenic disorders. During our therapeutic process, we realized that even though their symptoms seemed varied and severe, they disappeared after comparatively short periods. The pre‐adolescent period is a turning point at which the children depart from their earlier relationships with parents and start to form new ones with friends. We facilitated the patients' developmental process in this period so that they would recover naturally by themselves. However, when we looked at the social phenomena which influence the family and children, we noticed that some factors interfered with the pre‐adolescents trying to get over the above‐mentioned turning point.