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Abstraction ability and impairment: The barrow hospital sorting test in clinical psychological testing
(1955)"The current paper describes the use of a modified scoring system for the Sorting test, and the application of the test to a group of psychotic and non-psychotic subjects. The relative difficulty of the subtests is examined, ... -
Assessment of anxiety as an intervening variable in delinquent behaviour of m.D. Subjects. Galvanic skin response and leg‐persistence indices
(1957)Anxiety is accepted as a stimulus‐produoing response or learnable drive to which certain delinquent behaviour is conditioned by drive reduction, and relationship between fear, anxiety and pain resistance is discussed. ... -
Preliminary psychomotor stress studies with subnormal psychopathic subjects
(1960)IN a series of research studies concerned with stress reactivity in adult male patients of subnormal intelligence quotient (I.Q.) and of known delinquent or psychopathic history, it has been established that stability, and ... -
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Rorschach indices and autonomic stress reactivity
(1960)A Rorschach test and laboratory stress techniques were administered to 200 male inmates of a state hospital for mental defectives. The findings were compared via correlational techniques to validate Rorschach indices of ... -
Sex chromosome abnormalities in two state hospitals for patients requiring special security
(1966)THE association between sex chromatin abnormality and mental sub-normality is well established. The incidence of sex chromatin abnormality in the new-born male and female population is about 0.2 per cent and 0.08 per cent ... -
The eysenck personality inventory in male and female subnormal psychopaths in a special security hospital
(1968)The EPI was administered to a sample of 264 male and female subnormal psychopaths at a special security hospital. The males were not significantly different from the general population norms in Neuroticism and Extraversion. ... -
Validation of a short form WISC with clinic children
(1968)Summary. One‐hundred‐and‐twenty‐seven children tested at a child guidance clinic were given a full scale WISC in the course of their examination. Prorated IQs were calculated from four of the ten sub‐tests (Arithmetic, ... -
Patients with sex chromatin abnormality in two state hospitals
(1968)The incidence of sex‐chromatin subnormality in two special hospitals for subnormal patients requiring special security on account of violent and aggressive behaviour was found to be significantly higher than the incidence ... -
Psychological aspects of a sex chromatin abnormality
(1971)A sample of 147 special security patients with no demonstrated chromosome abnormality, and with no evidence of brain damage or psychosis, was compared with two groups of genetically abnormal patients, evincing an XXY or ... -
The decision process of the mental health review tribunal—2. Analysis of research findings
(1983)In response to applications, the tribunal should have the power to order delayed discharge by a given date. Improved access to the tribunal should help to safeguard some patients in the future from the dilemmas resulting ... -
The decision process of the mental health review tribunal—I. Review of literature and research
(1983)The aims and intentions of this analysis are: To review the literature and previous research about the mental health review tribunals from the time they were established by the Mental Health Act 1959 and commenced operation ... -
Posture cushion
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Fregoli syndrome after cerebral infarction
(1987)A case of a rare form of delusional misidentification, the Fregoli syndrome, is described. Although usually occurring in the setting of primary or secondary schizophrenic psychoses, delusional misidentification has been ... -
A preliminary study of violent incidents in a special hospital (Rampton)
(1988)A six-month prospective study of violent incidents was carried out in a Special Hospital (Rampton). Comparisons were made with results from earlier studies in general psychiatric hospitals. As might be expected, incidents ...