Category Archives: Mental

Psychosis – The Mental State Distorting Reality

A mental state where the person concerned finds the perception of reality distorted. People suffering from the psychosis syndrome may experience hallucinations that could be visual, audio or any other. In addition; such people may also hold such beliefs that are paranoid or disorders of life. Symptoms of PsychosisSome of the marked symptoms of psychosis are –Pronounced mental disorder in the patient. Unusual and often bizarre behavior by the patient.Hallucination and day dreaming. Hearing......
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Mental retardation and crime

Mental Retardation and Crime The vast majority of people with mental retardation never break the law. Nevertheless, mentally retarded people may be disproportionately represented in America’s persons. Although people with mental retardation constitute somewhere between 2.5 and 3 percent of U.S. population, experts estimate they may constitute between 2 and 10 percent of the prison population. The disproportionate number of persons with mental retardation in the incarcerated populatio......
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Mental Retardation in America (Part-II)

Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader (Part-II) The second equally influential study was The Kalliakak Family; A Study in the Heredity of Feeble Mindedness by Henry Goddard, 1912. Inspired by the new Mendelism, the study traced back six generations of the family of a young institutionalized woman and found an appalling amount of defectiveness. Yet there was also information about “a good family of the same name.” it emerged, of course, that the forebear met “......
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