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The Pseudo-Mental-Deficiency Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Frederick Edward Kratter
Frederick Edward Kratter*
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University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Clinical conditions simulating various degrees of intellectual handicap have been described quite frequently in the past. Individuals with such a deficiency have been observed in increasing numbers by psychiatrists, pediatricians, psychologists and social workers in schools for the mentally defective as well as in psychiatric hospitals and mental hygiene clinics.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 439 , April 1959 , pp. 406 - 420
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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