An Experimental Study of Psychopathic Delinquent Women |
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Adelaide admitted Antoinette arrested attack attitude became behavior Binet born Bridges point scale child childish chorea choreiform coefficient of mental committed to Bedford complement-fixation condition considered coöperative defective Delilah delinquent women depression died difficulty discharged Elizabeth Fry emotional instability emotional tone enuresis environment excited factor fairly father feeble-minded gave graded housework husband immaturity individual intelligence quotient irritable living loquacious main institution make-up marriage married matron ment mental ability mental hospital mother negative nervous never nurses parole patients period physical examination showed pital poor possible present probation problem prostitution Psychopathic Delinquent psychopathic hospital psychopathic personality Rebecca reformatory girls responsibility result returned salvarsan scale she scored sentenced to Bedford Simon scale sister social Stanford Revision stealing Summary supervision test for gonorrhea tion torticollis traits treatment uncon vagrancy Wassermann reaction Wassermann test woman worker Yerkes Yerkes-Bridges point scale York City
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Page 110 - The future analysis of the case should be full of interest. In all three cases, had the mental life been accessible to wise guidance at an earlier period, the antisocial behavior might easily have been prevented. While the court clinic and the institution laboratory can do much to reconstruct the re-educable delinquent, the real opportunity for constructive work is in the community where a knowledge of the principles of mental hygiene can be spread abroad...
Page xx - If in any case where a court might by way of final disposition commit an offender to the state prison, the reformatory for women, or any jail or house of correction, or to the Massachusetts reformatory, the state farm, or to the industrial school for boys...
Page 242 - ... had a career of harlotry begun early in life and continued after she married (at 26) VI 18, an ignorant, semi-industrious, but wellintentioned man. Soon after the birth of her first child, VII 49, she was divorced on the grounds of adultery. Cohabitation with a vicious criminal, VI 20, followed and by him she had two children, one of whom died in infancy. This man was convicted of burglary and sent to State prison for 1 to 4 years, and during this time VI 19 again became promiscuous in her sex...
Page 78 - She has a good sense of humour but is rather pessimistic. She does not seem to be a tale bearer, has not been known to steal while in the hospital and has only occasionally lied. She is always neat and cleanly. She is rather vain, extremely jealous, tends to be melodramatic, is fault-finding, and inclined to introspection and seclusiveness.
Page 126 - The treatment and reconstruction of psychopathic delinquent women in a single concentrated group will probably remain one of the most difficult of human problems, since it includes for its solution therapeutic, educational, social, and disciplinary treatment in proportions which vary with the special needs of each case. The time has come, however, when the shifting of responsibility regarding the psychopathic delinquent should cease and everyone who can should take up his share of the burden which...
Page 72 - A Guide to the Descriptive Study of the Personality," State Hospital Bulletin, Nov., 1913.
Page xiii - ... amendment to the State Charities Law providing that women over 16 and not over 30 years of age, confined in a State prison, penitentiary, reformatory, or other penal or correctional institution, under a first or a second conviction, may be transferred to the division of mentally defective delinquent women at the New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford Hills; and a bill authorizing the removal of alleged insane persons under criminal charges to State hospitals for observation. The Committee...
Page 126 - ... should take up his share of the burden which promises to be a heavy one for many years to come. For the solution of the problem will be attained only when everyone is willing to put a shoulder to the wheel and do his part. They are a too varied and heterogeneous group of individuals to be herded together and treated successfully.
Page 77 - Habits. a. Of activity? She was always running up and down stairs and along corridors and accomplished very little work. b. Of thought?
Page 133 - The need is great for further study of psychopathic delinquents from every point of view, social, mental and physical, and the problem of their care and treatment in a single concentrated group is still unsolved. It is hoped that the experiment which has here been described in detail will be of help to others who are interested in the same field of human conduct.