Am J Psychiatry 1975; 132:1265-1271
Copyright © 1975 by American Psychiatric Association
Psychopathology and mental retardation: A study of 100 mentally retarded children: I. Psychopathology
I Philips and N Williams
The authors studied 100 mentally retarded children referred to a
psychiatric clinic in regard to the severity of their retardation, their
ages at the time of referral, their social class, their presenting symptoms
and diagnoses, and the effects of organicity on their clinical pictures.
They found that 38 of these children were psychotically disturbed, 13 had
no evidence of psychiatric disorder, and 49 showed symptoms of
characterologic, neurotic, behavioral, or situational disorders. Although
the incidence of emotional disorder was high among these children, their
symptoms did not differ in kind from those found in a group of nonretarded
children referred to the clinic.
