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Mental Illness in the Mentally Handicapped

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The term illness implies that there has been a state of non-illness before the onset of discernible disorder, whereas the term handicap is used to express a disability of development which arises, and is most often recognizable, at an early age.

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  1. The British Institute of Mental Handicap, UK

    G. B. Simon (Director) (Director)

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Tibbits, J.C.N. (1980). Mental Illness in the Mentally Handicapped. In: Simon, G.B. (eds) The Modern Management of Mental Handicap. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7200-4_6

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