Industries for the Feeble-Minded

Mental Deficiency (Amentia)

This is a valuable and interesting book not only to the alienist physician, and the general practitioner, but also to the statesman and to all interested in sociological questions. The volume is founded on the large experience which Dr. Tredgold has had in various Asylums and Homes for the Feeble minded. Full use too has been made of the mass of materials to be found in recently issued volumino...

The Feeble-Minded

The Memory of the Feeble-Minded

Some modern writers on mental deficiency regard the feeble-minded as a class that has some one mental defect in common, varying in degree only. This simple conception is perhaps due to the tendency of late years to emphasise the quantitative aspect of mental deficiency and to neglect qualitative distinctions. But teachers, psychologists, and medical officers, who deal with the practical problem...

The Organisation of Classes for Retarded Children

" In my report last year, I discussed somewhat fully both the principles and methods of dealing with children who are mentally retarded or feeble-minded. It was shown that for practical purposes they fall into three groups:?(a) those who are dull (mental impairment) or backward (their normal development hindered by untoward circumstances); (b) the mentally defective who are in some measure educ...

A Method of Personality Diagnosis and Evaluation with Provision for Social Service Propaganda

In the comparatively rapid advancement made in recent years in that branch of Social Psychiatry known as the study of the Feeble-minded and of its subsidiary, the study of the Defective Delinquent, a most important and significant development has been the increased attention directed to the observation of the quality of mentality which we call character in contrast with the degree of mentality ...