[The intelligence level of patients undergoing protective sex therapy]

Based on examinations of the intelligence of 251 deviant patients hospitalized within the framework of compulsive sexuological in-patient treatment, the authors revealed in the above group a roughly normal distribution of intellectual abilities (26.7% patients feeble-minded and below average, 48.6% in the average zone, 24.7% above average and markedly above average). The best results were achieved by exhibitionists, where the authors found also the highest standard of occupational training. The lower level of education and professional training in the investigated group as a whole provides evidence that deviant development of the sexual instinct makes the implementation of intellectual dispositions of deviant subjects very difficult.