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The authors studied a group of 62 habitually violent patient/inmates from a prison population for life history and clinical variables. An extraordinarily high incidence of self-destructive behavior and self-mutilation was found as well as a high incidence of childhood pathology suggestive of deprivation and neurological impairment in the sepatients. The population was also found to be heterogeneous, differing on several significant variables.
BACH-Y-RITA et al. (Sun,) studied this question.