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Modern psychology has laid stress upon die importance of the instinctive and emotional factors in human life, and it is now universally recognised that a normal emotional equipment is at least as important a determinant of success in life as is a normal degree of intelligence. Certain failures on the other hand, both of social adjustment and of specific ability, can be demon- strated as having their origin in the emotional sphere. It is justifiable to argue that emotional disturbance may produce behaviour reactions which closely simulate Mental Deficiency, especially when they occur in children of the lower grade of normal intelligence. Not only that, but we must hypothecate a certain low level of intellect, or conversely a high degree of emotional in- stability, at which the emotional factor may fairly be said to determine mental deficiency; whilst lastly, in the true intellectual defective, emotional factors may complicate the deficiency. Consider first emotional reactions simulating mental defect. The be- haviour patterns of the child are more primitive, less firmly established, and more responsive to environmental influences than are those of the adult; and his emotional distur

Author

C J C Earl

Published

1935

Language

EN