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The Measurement and Description of Spontaneous Movements Before and After Leucotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Peter Sainsbury
Peter Sainsbury*
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Institute of Psychiatry (University of London), Maudsley Hospital
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Most spontaneous movements are considered to be motor expressions of the feelings and emotions (Stagner, 1948). Many movements of this kind are referred to as “nervous” habits or mannerisms, a description in which this assumption is also implicit. It is surprising, therefore, that so readily available and objective a guide to the affective organization of the personality has been studied relatively little: the difficulties of definition, description and measurement may account for this. Olson (1929), however, devised a useful time-sampling technique for measuring nervous habits, but I know of no investigations in which it has been used to compare the spontaneous movements made by healthy and “nervous” subjects.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 100 , Issue 420 , July 1954 , pp. 732 - 741
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1954 

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