Leo Kanner
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Leo Kanner (prnc. Conner) (June 13, 1894 – April 3, 1981) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and physician known for his work related to autism.
Kanner was born in Klekotow, Austria. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1913, his studies broken by service with the Austrian Army in World War I, finally receiving his MD in 1921. He emigrated to the United States in 1924 to take a position as an Assistant Physician at the State Hospital in Yankton County, South Dakota. In 1930 he was selected to develop the first child psychiatry service in a pediatric hospital at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He became Associate Professor of Psychiatry 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 87.
Papers
- Kanner L (1943). "Autistic disturbances of affective contact". Nerv Child 2: 217–50. Reprint (1968) Acta Paedopsychiatr 35 (4): 100–36. PMID 4880460.
- Kanner L (1949). "Problems of nosology and psychodynamics in early childhood autism". Am J Orthopsychiatry 19 (3): 416–26. PMID 18146742.
- Kanner, L. & Eisenberg, L. (1956), Early Infantile Autism 1943-1955, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 26, pp.55-65.
- Bender, L. (1982), In Memoriam Leo Kanner, MD June 13, 1894--April 4, 1981, J Am Acad Child Psychiatry 21(1): 88-89.
Books
- 1935 Child Psychiatry
- 1973 Childhood Psychosis: Initial Studies and New Insights
Further reading
- Sanua VD (1990). "Leo Kanner (1894–1981): the man and the scientist". Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 21 (1): 3–23. doi:10.1007/BF00709924. PMID 2204518.
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