Adult Psychiatric Patients on whom Information was Recorded during Childhood

Abstract

It is widely believed that knowledge of an adult patient's childhood is of great assistance in understanding the development of his illness. It has been thought that with advances in the understanding of psychogenesis of illnesses, where this is a major pathogenetic mechanism, it would eventually be possible to predict specifically who will develop which particular adult illness; a further hope would be that these adult illnesses could then be prevented.