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- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1924 American Psychological Association
- ISSN
- 0021-843X
- eISSN
- 1939-1846
- DOI
- 10.1037/h0073693
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
A report of two hundred cases of dementia precox examined in the Stanford revision of the Binet-Simon tests. The cases divided naturally into (1) those in which a marked and uniform deterioration was evident, (2) those in which a definite, subjective blocking of thought processes affected and somewhat lowered the mental age score, and (3) those in which no blocking was apparent and whose mental age scores seemed normally representative. The bulk of cases fell into the last category. The author concludes "that there is not necessarily an intellectual deterioration in dementia precox cases; that many of these cases were of the low normal or high moron type to begin with; that a psychosis may develop at any age level above the low grade imbecile stage; that in most cases of class (3) an innate inability to compete successfully in the realm of conventional social adjustment was the cause of the psychosis, called by the rather inadequate term dementia precox." From Psych Bulletin 21:12:01201.
Journal
Journal of Abnormal Psychology – American Psychological Association
Published: Jan 1, 1924