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Psychometrically Assessed Thought Disorder in Schizophrenic and Control Patients and in their Parents and Siblings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

David Romney
David Romney*
Affiliation:
Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, 12
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Thought disorder has always been regarded as an important symptom of schizophrenia. Attempts have been made to measure it by means of psychological tests: patients who manifest thought disorder clinically have been found to perform idiosyncratically on tests of concept-formation (1). The purpose of the first part of this investigation was to confirm the already established finding that schizophrenics, as a whole, are more thought disordered than controls. Not only were patients tested, but also their first-degree relatives; this aspect of the investigation, however, will be dealt with in the second part of the paper.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 526 , September 1969 , pp. 999 - 1002
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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