In 1957, the British-Indian child psychiatrist Dr Elwyn James Anthony travelled to the Zurich International Congress of Psychiatry to show a film featuring 70 children with such complex symptomatology and behaviour that they betrayed the certainty of contemporary theories of developmental psychology and psychoanalysis. This article examines the significance of Anthony’s film to the creation of new scientific models in international developmental psychology and psychiatric epidemiology. It marked a significant change in the use of filmed evidence that sought to create a truly global and universalist approach to atypical child development based purely on scientific observations. This new observational work was important in shaping new internationally ratified models to study the epidemiology of children’s psychiatric conditions.

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儿童发展、电影证据和流行病学：埃尔文·詹姆斯·安东尼和 1957 年苏黎世国际精神病学大会

1957年，英印儿童精神病学家埃尔文·詹姆斯·安东尼博士前往苏黎世国际精神病学大会，放映了一部以70名儿童为主角的电影，这些儿童的症状和行为如此复杂，以至于背叛了当代发展心理学和精神分析理论的确定性。本文探讨了安东尼的电影对国际发展心理学和精神病流行病学新科学模型创建的意义。它标志着拍摄证据的使用发生了重大变化，寻求纯粹基于科学观察来创建一种真正全球性和普遍主义的非典型儿童发展方法。这项新的观察工作对于制定国际认可的新模型来研究儿童精神疾病的流行病学非常重要。