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The Validity of the Meehl M.M.P.I. Psychotic Scale in the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Donald Walton
Affiliation:
Winwick Hospital, Warrington
Marcia Mather
Affiliation:
Winwick Hospital, Warrington
D. A. Black
Affiliation:
Rainhill Hospital, near Liverpool

Extract

The detection of early or subclinical schizophrenia is a major psychiatric problem. Patients who are finally classified as schizophrenic often may not have been so considered on previous examination. In other words their true condition was not detected clinically in the first place.

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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