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‘Psychoticism’ and Psychotic Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

F. M. McPherson ,
A. S. Presly ,
Jennifer Armstrong  and
R. H. Curtis
F. M. McPherson
Affiliation:
Tayside Area Clinical Psychology Department, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, by Dundee, Scotland
A. S. Presly
Affiliation:
Tayside Area Clinical Psychology Department, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, by Dundee, Scotland
Jennifer Armstrong
Affiliation:
Tayside Area Clinical Psychology Department, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, by Dundee, Scotland
R. H. Curtis
Affiliation:
Tayside Area Clinical Psychology Department, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, by Dundee, Scotland
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This study concerns the scores on a questionnaire measure of ‘Psychoticism’ of patients with a diagnosed psychotic illness.

Eysenck (1952) postulated the existence of three main dimensions of personality—Extra-version, Neuroticism and Psychoticism. The label ‘Psychoticism’ as used to suggest the hypothesis: ‘that there exists a set of correlated behaviour variables indicative of predisposition to psychoticbreakdown, demonstrableas a continuous variable in the normal population and independent of E and N (Eysenck and Eysenck, 1968a). Psychotically ill patients are held to mark the extreme end of this dimension.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 585 , August 1974 , pp. 152 - 160
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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