ABSTRACT
Unter the heading psychotic I group for convenience all those individuals whose abnormalities are sufficiently acute or sufficiently grave to make the individuals asocial or antisocial. In other words, we include in this group not only those persons who are commonly spoken of as insane and those others who have frank psychoses but also many with the milder manifestations of mental abnormality. Some of the latter do not act or do not have deficiencies of action which warrant their being legally restrained in institutions for their own protection or for the protection of the community. Many of these lesser asocial and antisocial people go about their daily tasks, and partly assume relations to the community. Some we speak of as peculiar or timorous. We find a few who are over-bold, some have phobias, or fears of fire, or of high places, or of open or of closed places, or of persons. Here we would include all of those commonly called neurasthenic or psychasthenic, as well as the hysteric. All of the persons of this group are differentiated from the other conditions with which we have dealt in the last four chapters by having the main manifestations mental. We must not overlook the fact that in many cases these 202mentally disturbed people may exhibit apparent physical disorders which simulate or which resemble those which have already been dealt with.
