[Gifted children! How to identify].

Recognizing the intellectually gifted child allows one to anticipate the onset of behavioral disorders and to respond to them so as to improve quality of life for these children and their family. Certain signs can draw attention to this phenomenon. The decisive criterion has always been IQ.

[Preteen visit].

Preadolescence, which is considered as an uneventful period since a long time, deserves to be rediscovered. It offers the clinician the opportunity to locate the emergence of diseases hitherto ignored (masked childhood disorders, early beginnings of adolescent pathologies), and to start the care before the pubertal transformations..

Psychodynamic psychiatry and the treatment of psychosis in the French community.

The author reviews the development of psychodynamic psychiatry in France, comparing and contrasting it with trends in the United States. In particular, he describes the role of dynamic psychiatry in the treatment of psychotic patients. He traces the movement from institutional treatment toward deinstitutionalization and treatment in the community, culminating in the official adoption in France of catchment area psychiatry.