(Cambridge Monographs in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.) Edited by Ian M. Goodyer. 354 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1995. $79.95. ISBN 0-521-43326-6.
In their contribution to this excellent monograph, Kovacs andBastiaens may have sensed the growing impatience as the readerstruggles with the mountain of studies presented. They write:"Although, over the past 15 years, considerable advances havebeen made in clinical and psychometric assessment, specificationof diagnostic criteria, and phenomenologic description of depressedyouths, no novel or comprehensive theories of early-onset depressionshave been proposed." It seems that the false surety of the previouslydominant view, psychoanalysis, has evaporated and that, perhapsin reaction to its excesses, the scientific hard core of psychiatryhas tried to exist in a sea . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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