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SCHIZOPHRENIC TRAITS IN THE FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOSES AND IN NORMAL INDIVIDUALS

James Page, Carney Landis, and S. E. KatzAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 90, Number 6

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.90.6.1213

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A questionnaire consisting of 50 typical schizophrenic behavior traits, as determined by a consensus of psychiatric opinion, was given to 100 manic-depressives, 125 schizophrenics, and 240 normal individuals. From the data collected, the following conclusions are offered:

1. The normal and schizophrenic groups possess on the average about the same number of schizophrenic traits. The former report 18 such traits and the latter 17.60 traits. The manic-depressive group, on the other hand, report only 14 such traits or about 80 per cent as many as the other two groups.

2. Analysis of individual traits fails to reveal a dichotomy of personality types underlying schizophrenic and manic-depressive patients. There is some indication that normal individuals possess somewhat different traits than psychotic individuals, but in general, all groups tend to have the same personality traits.

3. The lack of agreement between clinical observers of personality types and experimental workers is perhaps due to the fact that the former have interpreted personality as an organized whole or a gestalt, whereas the latter have interpreted personality as a sum of traits.

4. This analysis, by means of the questionnaire method, of the hypothesis that the "total personality" is basic in the development of the disease syndrome, indicates that either the questionnaire method is not a valid way to check the hypothesis or that the hypothesis is incorrect. Further work is under way which may determine more satisfactorily the validity of the concept of the total personality.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 90 • Number 6 • May 1934

Pages: 1213 - 1225

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Published in print: May 1934

Published online: 1 April 2006

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James Page

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Carney Landis

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S. E. Katz

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Kings Park State Hospital

New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital

N. Y. State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital

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SCHIZOPHRENIC TRAITS IN THE FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOSES AND IN NORMAL INDIVIDUALS

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