Military Service for Mental Defectives
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The object of this article is to offer information gained in examining mentally defective soldiers, to show their limitations, and the risks involved in keeping them in the Army, and to outline the way in which they are being dealt with. In civilian life we have to consider mental defect as a failure in social adaptation due mainly to lack of sufficient intelligence but frequently also to poor upbringing in the family home. At the outset I would stress that intellectual subnormality?
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The Effect of Rhythm and Functional Music on Mental Defectives *Paper (translated from the French) read at a meeting arranged by Association of Mental Health Workers in connection with the International Congress on Mental Health, August 20th, 1948.
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