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Psychoneurotic Symptom Clusters, Trait Clusters and Psychological Tests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

G. A. Foulds  and
T. M. Caine
G. A. Foulds
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex
T. M. Caine
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex
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Psychiatrists and clinical psychologists can be classified into the Big-Endians who believe in classification and the Little-Endians who do not. Each side has its derogatory stereotype of the other. According to the Little-Endians, Big-Endians are tough-minded, cold, impersonal monsters who think about the human personality in terms which are static and rigidly structural rather than fluid and dynamic. Contrary to Swift, they love people in general and hate Tom, Dick and Harry. In the field of mental health, they believe in illnesses rather than in people and believe that these illnesses all have an as yet unknown physical cause. They are reactionaries.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 104 , Issue 436 , July 1958 , pp. 722 - 731
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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