<unk>  (b. 1933) is the first<unk>  of child psychiatry in the United Kingdom. Although he has been described as the "father of child psychology", he would be more accurately characterized as the father of modern child psychiatry.<unk> <unk><unk> ’s work includes: early epidemiologic studies (Isle of Wight and Inner London); studies of autism involving a wide range of scientific techniques and disciplines, including DNA study and neuroimaging; links between research and practice; deprivation; influences of families and schools; genetics; reading disorders; biological, social protective, and risk factors; interactions of biological and social factors; stress; longitudinal as well as epidemiologic studies, including childhood and adult experiences and conditions; and continuities and discontinuities in normal and
pathological development. The British Journal of Psychiatry credits him with a number of "breakthroughs" in these areas and<unk>  is also recognized as  contributing centrally to the establishment of child psychiatry as a medical and biopsychosocial specialty with a solid scientific base.
He has published over 40 books including Maternal Deprivation Reassessed (1972) which New Society describes as 'A classic in the field of child care'. In this work he qualified the theory of Maternal Deprivation which had been developed by Dr John Bowlby and expressed for popular consumption in 'Maternal Care and Mental Health' (1951) and 'Child Care and the Growth of Love' (1953). That theory was that children were damaged by separation from their mother or mother figure.<unk>  pointed out that children were not invariably so damaged and that, in any event, other people, including their fathers, are also very important to children. According to Schaffer in 'Social Development' (2000)  it is now generally accepted that social convention accounts for whatever differences are observed amongst mothers and fathers.<unk>  has honorary degrees from the Universities of Leiden, Louvain, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Chicago, Minnesota, Ghent, Jyväskylä, Warwick, East Anglia and Cambridge. He has remained in practice until late into his career and the<unk><unk>  Centre for Children and Adolescents, based at Maudsley Hospital, London, is named after him.<unk>  was elected to the Royal Society in 1987 and knighted in 1992.
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