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The Twentieth Maudsley Lecture: Intelligence as a Social Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

F. C. Bartlett
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In 1895, as many people here are likely to know, Henry Maudsley combined two of his earlier books into his famous Pathology of Mind. Very near the beginning of this volume, he laid unusual emphasis upon the paramount importance of a study of social conditions in relation to human conduct in general and the varied forms of mental illness in particular. “The study of the individual as an element of social pathology,” he declared, “will plainly be a long, laborious, and difficult business of the future.” He was right. Fifty years have gone and, in spite of many notable contributions, it is a study still in its infancy.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 93 , Issue 390 , January 1947 , pp. 1 - 8
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1947 

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