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An Experimental Study of a Method of Using Perceptual Errors as an Aid to Diagnosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

D. Walton*
Affiliation:
Rainhill Hospital, near Liverpool, and Winwick Hospital, Warrington

Extract

We have at present no reliable method for indicating the correct sequence of treatment in neurotic cases showing a manifold symptomatology. In such cases much time may be lost through attacking superficial rather than basic conflicts. It would therefore be an undoubted advantage to possess a means of indicating objectively and by experiment which problems are fundamental, and to the resolution of which treatment should be first directed.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1954 

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