@article{ref1,
title="Pathological preoccupation with video games",
journal="Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry",
year="1990",
author="Keepers, G. A.",
volume="29",
number="1",
pages="49-50",
abstract="Controversy continues concerning the harmfulness of video game use by children. The author encountered clearly pathological preoccupation with video games in a preadolescent. The child had stolen, forged checks, and skipped school to continue using video games. He and his mother were physically abused by his father. Placement of the child in a residential treatment center with martial and family therapy resulted in resolution of the patient's pathological use of video games.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0890-8567",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}