[Psychotic manifestations in childhood. III. Abnormal reactions to adventures (author's transl)]

In childhood psychotic manifestations are in most cases due to somatic diseases, but may be psychogenic. Abnormal reactions to adventures especially to very abnormal occurances--for instance in families with psychotic members--lead to psychotic symptoms. The appearence of those psychotic manifestations is influenced by the age of the child, by his hysterical, anancastic or austistic character and the pathological features (paranoic or depressive) of the inducing person. Usually hospitalization for diagnostic and therapeutical reasons is necessary. In case of induced psychoses separation must be long enough and has to be combined with treatment of the primary patient.