- Leo Kanner
Leo Kanner (prnc. "Conner") (
June 13 ,1894 –April 3 ,1981 ) was anAustria n-Americanpsychiatrist andphysician known for his work related toautism . [cite journal |author= Bender L |date=1982 |title= In memoriam Leo Kanner, M.D. June 13, 1894–April 4, 1981 |journal= J Am Acad Child Psychiatry |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=88–9 |pmid=7047620] [cite journal |journal= Child Psychiatry Hum Dev |date=1990 |volume= 21 |issue=1 |pages=3–23 |title= Leo Kanner (1894–1981): the man and the scientist |author= Sanua VD |doi=10.1007/BF00709924 |pmid=2204518]Kanner was born in
Klekotow ,Austria . He studied at theUniversity of Berlin from 1913, his studies broken by service with the Austrian Army in World War I, finally receiving his M.D. in 1921. He emigrated to the United States in 1924 to take a position as an Assistant Physician at the State Hospital inYankton County, South Dakota . In 1930 he was selected to develop the firstchild psychiatry service in apediatric hospital atJohns Hopkins Hospital , Baltimore. He became Associate Professor ofPsychiatry in 1933.He was the first physician in the United States to be identified as a child psychiatrist and his first textbook, "Child Psychiatry" in 1935, was the first English language textbook to focus on the psychiatric problems of children. His seminal 1943 paper, "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact", together with the work of
Hans Asperger , forms the basis of the modern study of autism.He became Director of Child Psychiatry in 1957. He retired in 1959 but remained active until his death at the age of 86.
Papers
*cite journal |author= Kanner L |title= Autistic disturbances of affective contact |journal= Nerv Child |volume=2 |pages=217–50 |date=1943 cite journal |title=Reprint |quotes=no |date=1968 |journal= Acta Paedopsychiatr |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=100–36 |pmid=4880460
*cite journal |journal= Am J Orthopsychiatry |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=416–26 |date=1949 |author=Kanner L |title= Problems of nosology and psychodynamics in early childhood autism |pmid=18146742
*cite journal |author= Kanner L, Eisenberg L |date=1956 |title= Early infantile autism 1943–1955 |journal= Am J Orthopsychiatry |volume=26 |pages=556–66Books
* 1928 "Folklore of the Teeth"
* 1935 "Child Psychiatry"
* 1973 "Childhood Psychosis: Initial Studies and New Insights"References
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