. Alienist and neurologist. . inal, but were a different group by themselves, and to this groupthey applied the term defective delinquents, which classification hasbeen adopted in many parts of this country. Dr. Fernald has since saidthat this was used as a general term, without pretending to be the ulti-mate classification, but that it was expected that the psychiatrists orpsychologists would divide it up and classify it into parts. The term defective delinquent may be perhaps more of a legalthan a medical term, but Dr. Fernalds idea was to bring the two diver-gent points—medical and legal—to
. Alienist and neurologist. . inal, but were a different group by themselves, and to this groupthey applied the term defective delinquents, which classification hasbeen adopted in many parts of this country. Dr. Fernald has since saidthat this was used as a general term, without pretending to be the ulti-mate classification, but that it was expected that the psychiatrists orpsychologists would divide it up and classify it into parts. The term defective delinquent may be perhaps more of a legalthan a medical term, but Dr. Fernalds idea was to bring the two diver-gent points—medical and legal—together into a term that would covereach. Hence the coining of the term defective delinquent. At the Psychopathic Hospital in Boston this term is not now used,this group being classed as mainly psychopathic personalities underthe Kraepelin classification, with also a small group of constitutionalinferiority cases. At the Worcester State Hospital this group is mainly classified underthe head of constitutional Page One THE ALIENIST AND NEUROLOGIST Dr. V. V. Anderson, the Medical Director of the Municipal CriminalCourt for the City of Boston, says that he finds that the term defectivedelinquent is being used by different examiners to define markedlydivergent types, and that altogether we have presented to us a ratherloose and confusing symptomatology connected with the term defectivedelinquent. He has therefore divided this group into three classi-fications : First—The mental defective, believing that defective used inreference to the mind of an individual, should carry with it a lack ofnormal mental development, and should have a very definite meaningto us that is demonstrable by exact measurements. Second—Psychopaths, a group of persons whose intellect is notimpaired, but who are impulsive, neurotic and unable to adjust them-selves to their environments, psychopaths being all cases of constitu-tional inferiority. The mentality of the psychopath is disorder
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