Most readers have assumed that Philip's clubfoot stands in for his creator's speech impediment, but Francis King, an English writer and a friend of Maugham's, argued that it was "a metaphor for a graver disability" — his sexual orientation.
Most readers have assumed that Philip's clubfoot stands in for his creator's speech impediment, but Francis King, an English writer and a friend of Maugham's, argued that it was "a metaphor for a graver disability"—his sexual orientation.
In a survey of American psychiatrists' views about involuntary treatment, respondents held danger to self or others and grave disability as the primary reasons for involuntary treatment [ 33].
In a national U.S. survey of psychiatrists' views about involuntary admission, respondents revealed a strong support for criteria labeled danger to self, danger to others and grave disability, as grounds for admission [ 20].
Appropriate candidates for telephone intervention are those with whom the clinician has already met in person and with whom a therapeutic rapport was established, and those who have been assessed thoroughly: including for suicidal or homicidal ideation, thoughts of harming oneself or others, and grave psychiatric disability.
Like Sinisterra, Williams had endured an appalling childhood, marked by frequent and extreme sexual and physical abuse, and had grave intellectual disabilities.
I called and told my father the grave news that my disability payments had been cut off.
The rapidly rising rates of childhood obesity and subsequent increasing burden of disease and disability has grave social and economic consequences, contributing to rising cost of health services and limiting economic growth.
Near- misses are those where the mother survives the incident of grave illness but may suffer disability or injury as a result.
Among young people, aged between 15 and 49, a drinking habit is the most likely cause of disability and an early grave.
