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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 128, No. 4

Articles | October 01, 1971

Juvenile Delinquents View Their Impulsivity

RICHARD C. MAROHN; DANIEL OFFER; ERIC OSTROV

Am J Psychiatry 1971;128:418-423.

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Chief, Michael Reese Unit, Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, 1601 W. Taylor St., Chicago, Ill. 60612

Associate Director, Psychosomatic & Psychiatric Institute, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Ill.

Research Associate, Michael Reese Unit, Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, 1601 W. Taylor St., Chicago, Ill. 60612

1972, American Psychiatric Association

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This study of 24 hospitalized adolescent delinquents revealed that the delinquents were well aware of their impulsivity. This awareness was related not to age, sex, race, police contact, or incarceration but to objective measures of impulsivity. In some impulsive delinquents, internal awareness of their intrapsychic inability to control and modulate impulses was blocked and was projected onto the outside world; it was experienced as a feeling of doom or helplessness about the future.

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