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Type Psychology: Its Importance in Mental Hospital Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

J. Ernest Nicole*
Affiliation:
Lancashire County Mental Hospital, Winwick

Extract

When a patient is admitted to a mental hospital his condition is investigated from a number of angles. His physical state is ascertained, including the condition of his blood and his cerebro spinal fluid; he may be found to exhibit such and such a neuro logical symptom. His mental state is probed into, his intelligence estimated, his emotional reactions noted, his complexes even may be progressively dug up. As a crowning summit to this edifice of knowledge a label is at last attached to the case, and a diagnosis arrived at.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1928 

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