Changes in the Attitudes to Authority of Patients with Behaviour Disorders in a Therapeutic Community

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Abstract
One major characteristic of behaviour disorder is persistent hostility towards authority. Those offenders who appear repeatedly before the Courts and are eventually diagnosed as cases of behaviour disorder, almost uniformly exhibit histories of difficulties with authority (8). Indeed, when a study was made of 87 case-notes of patients in a hospital for the mentally subnormal who were admitted as suffering from behaviour disorder, in order to discover those features of their previous histories which were common to all, it was found that every one showed a persistently troublesome relationship with authority figures (9).

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