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Comparison of Provided and Elicited Grid Content in the Grid Test of Schizophrenic Thought Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. McFadyen  and
G. A. Foulds
M. McFadyen
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, Dundee DD2 5NF
G. A. Foulds
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Edinburgh University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh 10
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Within a framework of Kelly's Personal Construct Theory (Kelly, 1955; Bannister, 1962a), Bannister (1960, 1962b) considers thought-process disorder (formal thought disorder) to be a loosening of the associations between the constructs of the patient's conceptual system, and an instability over time of whatever pattern of association remains. The disorder appears to be maximal in that construct subsystem which subsumes discriminations relating to psychological attributes (Bannister and Salmon, 1966; McPherson and Buckley, 1970).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 121 , Issue 560 , July 1972 , pp. 53 - 57
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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