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A Short Scale for Rating “Activity-Withdrawal” in Schizophrenics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

P. H. Venables
P. H. Venables*
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5
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Experimental work on the performance of schizophrenic patients indicated that different patterns of response were to be found among patients who could be considered subjectively as withdrawn and inert on the one hand, and sociable and active on the other. This subjective classification appeared to cut across diagnosis within the schizophrenic group.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 103 , Issue 430 , January 1957 , pp. 197 - 199
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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