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Personality, Body Build and Adrenocortical Activity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Robert Taylor Segraves
Robert Taylor Segraves*
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Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
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In recent years research workers have shown a relative lack of interest in the constitutional correlates of normal personality. However, recent findings in the field of psychosomatic medicine suggest the need for a careful reexamination of this field of research. Several studies have indicated that breast cancer, lung cancer, and myocardial infarction patients are more extraverted and less neurotic than hospital control group patients (Eysenck, 1965). Also, duodenal ulcer patients have been reported as being both introverted and neurotic (Kanter and Hazelton, 1964).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 117 , Issue 539 , October 1970 , pp. 405 - 411
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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