ABSTRACT
Douglas went through a comprehensive psychological assessment which was conducted for him. The author desire was to obtain a picture of his psychological and neuropsychiatric status as well as an idea of his intellectual capacities. The psychological assessment was in relation to Douglas's earlier experiences. His somatic disabilities, his impairments in vision and hearing, must also be taken into consideration. Like almost all children, Douglas experienced the psychological assessment as something positive, despite the stress and strain. It gave him a different kind of experience, with encouragement and demands adapted to his ability. Douglas looked unhappy when the sessions came to an end. Finally, the psychological assessment showed that Douglas had a very immature inner structure and an emotional disorder, combined with a highly deviating way of relating to other people. Combinations of emotional and social causal relationships, along with neuropsychiatric symptoms, summed up by the diagnosis ADHD, form the basis of Douglas's complex disorders.
