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A Factorial Study of Physical Constitution in Women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Linford Rees
Linford Rees*
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Wales and Monmouthshire
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The assessment of body build as an integral part of the total personality is now accepted as an important procedure in the practice of clinical psychiatry. Body build has been found to influence symptomatology, mental status, course and prognosis in neurotic and psychotic disorders (Betz, 1942; Mauz, 1930; Kisselew, 1931; Freudenberg, 1941; Rees, 1945, 1947). Whereas the delineation of physical types has now become an objective procedure by the use of anthropometric indices (Rees, 1949), it has long been recognized that the differentiation of physical types in women is much more difficult. Kretschmer (1921) pointed out that the types of physique described by him were less easily diagnosed in women, and Sheldon (1940) pays comparatively little attention to the variations of female body build.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 96 , Issue 404 , July 1950 , pp. 619 - 632
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1950 

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