MENTALLY CHALLENGEDWAYFINDERS

Tort Liability of the Mentally Ill and Mentally Deficient

The Mentally Subnormal

by Margaret Adams. Heinemann. 25s. Work with the mentally subnormal has always demanded a high degree of skill and the failure to recognise this reflects society's attitude to the handicap. This attitude is fortunately in process of being modified and Margaret Adams is to be congratulated on bringing together a team of people who can speak with such authority of the rewarding nature of work wit...

The Mentally Retarded Child

, This is a review of various Russian investigations concerning the clinical afl pathopsychological characteristics of the brain-damaged child. The Russians do A0 accept as mentally retarded those unsuccessful children who are generally found 1,1 schools for the educationally subnormal. Most of these are either "pedagogical'5 neglected" or have "partial or peripheral difficulties", e.g. defecti...

The Mentally Retarded

The crucial factor involved in habilitating the mentally retarded, or other individuals, for produc­ tive employment is not, as is often erroneously as­ sumed, the decision concerning the vocation that the client may succeed in, but the position that is taken concerning this unique person. In this re­ gard, an analysis of the habilitation process indicates that at each decision-making point a p...

Being Mentally Ill

Incorporating sociological theory into that of psychiatric illness is particularly difficult. It also goes against the grain for psychiatrists who were trained as doctors and had their attention focused on individual differences, rather than on the social system in which the patient is involved. Society, too, in its management of the mentally ill, accepts the individual disease model.