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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1966) 112: 1097-1102. doi: 10.1192/bjp.112.492.1097
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Differences Between Physically-minded and Psychologically-minded Medical Practitioners

H. J. WALTON M.D., M.R.C.P.E., D.P.M.1

1 Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Morningside Park, Edinburgh 10

1. A difference was demonstrated between psychologically-oriented and physically-oriented doctors on post-graduate courses.

2. The personality dimension that differentiates the two types of doctor is Thinking-introversion. The doctors more interested in physical aspects of illness are less reflective and less interested in abstract ideas.

3. No difference of personality or attitude was demonstrated between psychologically-oriented doctors who gave evidence in their actions of psychological interest by attending a psychiatry course and those doctors who merely professed psychological interest.

4. A second personality dimension, flexibility of outlook with the capacity to accept conditions of uncertainty, did not discriminate among the three groups of doctors.

5. Only four professional attitude items in a questionnaire of 31 items were related to psychological orientation: i. a professional role-perception factor (self-assessment of suitability to be a psychiatrist); ii. quality of under-graduate teaching; iii. degree of interest in psychiatric patients; iv. willingness to treat more cases of psychological disorder in practice.

Submitted on December 28, 1965




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