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28.27 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Psychopathic personality, October 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/27

Scope and Contents

"Taken to hospital while a schoolboy and liked it so much he has always trying to get back - took ill periodically with this intention. Dr thinks he is precocious and over-sexed - made love to the nurses at a very early age. IQ 116. Family thought to be subnormal mentally. Hopeless at paying their bills. Father a brother of [28.35], a bad lot, curious customer, has a criminal record, theft and assault, separated from his wife and living with another woman. Labourer. Known thief."

[Male teacher]: "During his school life he was absent a good deal on account of recurrent attacks of rheumatic fever; he was treated in hospital where on account of his youth he seems to have been petted. This, I am sure, is the explanation of certain exhibitionist features in his make-up. He was intelligent at school, but this intelligence was not accompanied by concentration, ambition, or interest. There is a background of pilfering in the family although none of the pupils I've known was in trouble at school. I am rather inclined to think that he will develop into the type of man who agitates. He has however been in the ATC for some time and this may have a corrective influence".

Relatives in survey: sibling 28.205

Dates

  • Other: October 1946

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