Mental Subnormality: Biological, Psychological and Cultural Factors

Crime and Mental Subnormality

Mental Subnormality—Whose Baby?

Firstly, I should make it clear that the use of the word "Baby", in the title of this paper, refers to mental, not chronological, age. In other words, I am not restricting myself only to a consideration of mentally subnormal children. Nevertheless, it has some meta-phorical meaning in so far as we are discussing a problem whose unpopular aspects are frequently apt to be bounced on to someone el...

Epidemiology of Mental Subnormality

(we.ht the circumstances of their study. y*al nomenclature in England underIvji1 a change with the passing of the ntal Health Act, 1959. This not only changed "mental deficiency" into "mental subnormality" and did away with the terms "idiot", "imbecile" and "feeble-minded" (roughly replacing the first two by the severely subnormal and the last by the subnormal), but it "cured" those previously ...

Mental Subnormality and Community Care

This is the second Broadsheet arising out of the three-year study of community mental health services being carried on by P.E.P. under the direction of Dr. F. M. Martin, Edinburgh University. It surveys the present situation in regard to mental subnormality in four sections?Legal Changes, Epidemiology, Local Authority and Hospital Services, and Research?the whole constituting a valuable summing...

Modern Trends in Mental Health and Subnormality

longer the cure of diseases, the doctor has to make a contribution, along with other professional workers, to the detailed and complex provisions for the development of the innate, or residual, capacities. It is this change which has led to the rapidly increasing medical interest in the growth, education and social training of the mentally handicapped. The main emphasis of this book is on the t...