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The Contribution of Mental Deficiency Research to Psychiatry

The Fortieth Maudsley Lecture, delivered before the Royal Medico-Psychological Association, 19th November, 1965

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

L. S. Penrose
L. S. Penrose*
Affiliation:
Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harper bury Hospital, near St. Albans
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In choosing the subject for this Lecture commemorating the august personality of Henry Maudsley, I did not intend to be exhaustive and I had in mind two things. I would like to discuss how the study of intellectual defects and their objective measurement may contribute to the knowledge of what Maudsley (1895) called the pathology of mind. Also, I would like to draw attention to the way in which clinical work in mental deficiency may help to explain some of the causes of mental illnesses. The first topic is psychological, the second is biological.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 112 , Issue 489 , August 1966 , pp. 747 - 755
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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