Year: 1992 Source: Hospital and Community Psychiatry, v.43, no.5, (May 1992), p.494-499 SIEC No: 19920736

The revision of DSM-III & changes in policies of third-party payers have sensitized clinicians to the presence of psychopathology among mentally retarded persons. The authors discuss the relationship between mental illness & mental retardation, & review recent research on the diagnosis of specific psychiatric disorders in these patients. Some problems, such as psychoses & phobias, are more prevalent in mentally retarded persons, whereas, other problems, such as suicide, may be less common.