Subnormal Personalities

This remarkable and brilliant book throws a searchlight on to the clinical study, treatment and training of a section of our community whose problems have been so misunderstood and ignored. The author's approach reveals much profound and original thinking based on a new concept of the condition which has been labelled "subnormality", and his opinions and findings are the result of years of experience with, and insight into, subnormal patients in their day to day life in a residential colony. One of the conclusions he stresses is that the free use so often made of the tenn "subnormality" has little or no value unless the assessment of the condition is related to the cultural background and standards of the community in which the individual has been nurtured. A foreword is contributed by Dr. Kenneth Soddy; there is a section on the treatment and training of adult subnormals with