The British Journal of Psychiatry (1968) 114: 53-56. doi: 10.1192/bjp.114.506.53
© 1968 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Foulds' "Continuum of Personal Illness" and the 16 P.F

JAMES McALLISTER M.A.1

1 Clinical Psychologist, The Ross Clinic, Aberdeen

From a pool of 16 P.F. test results the personality profiles of several psychiatric groups and a normal group were selected and analysed according to Foulds' "continuum of personal illness".

This continuum goes from normals to personality disorders, neurotics, integrated psychotics, through to non-integrated psychotics. Since Foulds describes the continuum in terms of "increasing degrees of failure to maintain or establish mutual personal relationships" it was hypothesized that personality profile analysis might validly reflect this.

Analysis of the results reveals significant profile differences which on interpretation suggestively confirm Foulds' formulation.

Submitted on September 14, 1966