ABSTRACT
Prichard (1837) used the term moral insanity to designate patients with recurrent antisocial behaviors who were not blatantly psychotic. Healy and Bronner (1926) described delinquents as having “psychic constitutional deficiency.” Bowlby (1944) described various types of delinquent boys including affectionless character, the most common. Jenkins and Hewitt (1944) developed their theoretical frame of reference employing psychoanalytic concepts and identified three types of conduct disorders including unsocialized aggressive reaction, socialized delinquent reaction, and overanxious reaction.
