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Neurosis in Hospital and General Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Neil Kessel  and
Michael Shepherd
Neil Kessel
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council M.R.C. Unit, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Edinburgh and The Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
Michael Shepherd
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry M.R.C. Unit, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Edinburgh and The Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
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Although there is general agreement that the neuroses constitute a major public health problem there is little reliable information about their distribution. The difficulty is largely one of definition. As most people experience emotional conflict of some sort, the concept of neurosis can be widened so readily as to rob it of much value for medical purposes. Epidemiological enquiries have been hampered by disagreement about the nature of neurosis and by the lack of screening techniques (Shepherd, 1960). In consequence formal morbidity surveys have proved difficult to conduct and their results still harder to interpret.

Type
Sociological Psychiatry
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 453 , March 1962 , pp. 159 - 166
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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