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The Inadequate Personality in Psychiatric Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

A. B. Monro
A. B. Monro*
Affiliation:
Long Grove Hospital, Epsom
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This paper is an attempt to clarify and give content to the concept of inadequacy of the personality, for the concept has gained considerable currency in psychiatry as a hypothesis to account for difficultieg encountered in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Before the theory can be evaluated, it should be stated in a reasonably precise form. This enquiry starts from a very general statement about the idea of inadequacy as usually encountered in psychiatric practice, and proceeds towards a formulation in more exact terms.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 438 , January 1959 , pp. 44 - 50
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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