RUMINATION IN 2 DEVELOPMENTALLY NORMAL-CHILDREN - CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

This report describes the cases of two normal 6-year-old children, bot h of whom experienced rumination for a period of 6 to 8 months, follow ed by full remission. For each of these children, rumination was a rea ction to situational stress (adoption and maladaption, respectively). These cases represent the addition of a new form of rumination to the literature: a benign, self-limited childhood disorder of mentally and developmentally normal children, distinctly different from ''ruminatio n disorder,'' as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of M ental Disorders (DSM-III-R).