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Abstract
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Excerpts from various writers are given in this article to reveal the inadequacy of treatment given to the concept of abnormality. The abnormal person is not one who has simply more or less of a given capacity or trait. In the opinion of the author he is, rather, one in whom a balance between many delicate parts has been upset, one in whom an elaborate integration between mental components and drives has, to some extent, at least, broken down. He is a personality in whom the constituent parts are not well integrated. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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