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On the Psychopathology of Transitivism and Appersonation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Thomas Freeman*
Affiliation:
Holywell Hospital, Antrim, Northern Ireland; and The Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic, London

Summary

While the phenomena described under the terms transitivism and appersonation are well known, they have not been studied in detail either from the descriptive or from the psychopathological standpoints. Here only a brief reference is made to the descriptive data. An account of the psychopathological hypotheses on which an explanation of the phenomena is based is followed by a discussion of the relevance of the clinical manifestations for a theory of psychosis.

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1976 

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