100 admissions to a psychopathic unit

Abstract

This paper reports the work of a clinical team on 100 consecutive first admissions to a unit constructed for the treatment of psychopaths at Balderton Hospital, Newark, Notts, and opened 1958–61. To prevent bias all male admission with behaviour disorder admitted between 1958–60 are here reported except: five admitted for observation of less than a week, twenty-two admitted only for remand, and those with a Wechsler or Stanford Binet I.Q. less than 56. The unit specialized in delinquents with mental disorder, and received admissions from all over Britain.