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Psychoneurotic Profiles in Middle Age

A Study of Persons Aged 40 to 65 Registered with a General Practitioner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. H. Crisp  and
R. G. Priest
A. H. Crisp
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, St. George's Hospital Medical School, St. George's Hospital, Tooting, London S.W.17
R. G. Priest
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, St. George's Hospital Medical School, St. George's Hospital, Tooting, London S.W.17
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The Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (M.H.Q.) is a brief self-rating inventory that is intended to cover the full clinical range of neurotic illness (Crown and Crisp, 1966). It usually takes about 7–10 minutes to complete, and a few minutes to score. Although many questionnaires attempt to measure general neurotic ill-health, the only other short test that purports to rate patients comprehensively in terms of clinical categories (e.g. anxiety state, neurotic depression, obsessional neurosis, hysteria) is Fould's Symptom-Sign Inventory, which requires verbal administration by the examiner and does not cover psychosomatic and phobic syndromes.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 119 , Issue 551 , October 1971 , pp. 385 - 392
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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