**Abstract**

A paradigm shift is now taking place in psychiatry with the emphasis on neurodevelopmental disorders with a neurobiologic emphasis and early onset including autism, ADHD, learning disability, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This paradigm superseded the attachment paradigm of the second half of the twentieth century with so many misguided theories such as, "blaming the mother"—the socalled refrigerated mother and the schizophrenogenic mother. The new paradigm allows more focused treatment interventions.

**Keywords:** neurodevelopmental disorders, autism, attachment disorders, neurobiology
