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A Comparative Study of the Fatiguability of a Group of Chronic Schizophrenics and a Group of Hospitalized Non-Psychotic Depressives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

W. V. Wadsworth ,
B. W. P. Wells  and
R. F. Scott
W. V. Wadsworth
Affiliation:
Cheadle Royal Hospital, Cheadle, Cheshire
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To make a comparative study of the fatiguability of chronic schizophrenics and non-psychotic depressives and to test Kraepelin's hypothesis that schizophrenia is typified by rapid and acute fall-off in work performance (Kraepelin, 1910). Kraepelin's explanation of the cause of this fall-off was in terms of constriction of volition. However, on the basis of operational definitions, there appears to be little justification for regarding the phenomenon as other than a special case of fatiguability.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 454 , May 1962 , pp. 304 - 308
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

References

Kraepelin, E. (1910). Psychiatrie. Leipzig.Google Scholar
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