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The Significance of Abstract and Concrete Behaviour in Elderly Psychiatric Patients and Control Subjects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Barbara Hopkins  and
Felix Post
Barbara Hopkins
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
Felix Post
Affiliation:
The Bethlem Royal Hospital and The Maudsley Hospital
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The recognition of a well-established psychosis due to arteriosclerotic or senile brain changes rarely presents any difficulty. However, increasing numbers of elderly people are seen with affective, paranoid, or neurotic manifestations, and it is sometimes very difficult to decide whether their symptoms present prodromata of an organic psychosis, or whether in the absence of degenerative brain disease they are occasioned by a variety of endogenous and environmental causes leading to a “functional” psychiatric illness.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 101 , Issue 425 , October 1955 , pp. 841 - 850
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1955 

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