PCR-2001 ©1939 From the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic and the Spring Grove State Hospital of Maryland. Photographed by Upshur Pope in 1939.
This film presents an interview between the psychiatrist and the patient, a 29-year-old laborer who, seven months before the film was made, was brought to the hospital by the police because of odd behavior. Little reliable past history could be obtained, but his school record suggested mental retardation. He adjusted well to hospital life and made it clear that he feared the outside world. He rejected all his mother’s entreaties to return home. The pictures show stereotypic grimaces and stereotypic speech (both concerned with avoiding trouble), vagueness, concrete use of abstract expressions, and neologisms.
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