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A Psychometric Study of Senility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

H. Halstead*
Affiliation:
Psychologist to Mill Hill and Sutton E.M.S. Hospitals

Extract

Problem.

The writer undertook to try out a number of mental tests on a group of senile patients and to submit a tentative battery for a further investigation of senescence.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1943 

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