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Overinclusive Thought Disorder and Symptomatology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. V. Hawks  and
R. W. Payne
D. V. Hawks
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, University of London
R. W. Payne
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioural Science, Temple University Medical School, Philadelphia
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Payne and Hewlett (1960) found that the schizophrenics having the highest factor scores on their dimension of overinclusion were diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. Payne (1966) has suggested that if overinclusive thinking is construed as an inability to disregard irrelevant stimulation it is conceivable that overinclusive thought-disordered schizophrenics will come to hold delusions of reference and persecution as a consequence of their giving these irrelevances personal significance. In this way the paranoid schizophrenic's thought disorder is seen as the basis of his delusional symptomatology. A number of studies have lent support to this contention (Payne, Caird and Laverty, 1964; Lloyd, 1967). On the other hand several studies have failed to find the predicted relationship between overinclusive test performance and delusional symptomatology (Hawks, 1964; Chapman and McGhie, 1962).

Type
Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 118 , Issue 547 , June 1971 , pp. 663 - 670
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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