Psychiatry and Learning Disability

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My involvement with the psychiatry of learning disability began in 1968 when Professor Batchelor, then Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Dundee, suggested that mental illness in people with learning disability was a clinically interesting and under-researched topic which merited further investigation. At that time, mental illness was not usually considered even a part of the medical specialty of learning disability – or at least, not in Scotland. People in mental handicap hospitals who developed signs of mental illness were normally passed on to colleagues in general psychiatry who were considered to have the investigative and treatment expertise. If admission to in-patient care was considered necessary, it was usually to the local general psychiatry service.

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