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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 119, No. 5

Article | November 01, 1962

THE NATURE OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH WITH REFLECTIONS ON THE RESEARCH OF FREUD AND HUGHLINGS JACKSON AND ON THE LIMITATIONS OF STATISTICS

MAX LEVIN

Am J Psychiatry 1962;119:404-409.

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Section on Neurology, Dept. of Medicine, The New York Medical College, New York, N. Y.

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Pyschiatric research, in the best sense of the term, means the explanation of behavior. The mere gathering of facts, which are then treated statistically, is not necessarily the highest type of research. Freud's work and the work of Hughlings Jackson on the mind-brain problem are held up as examples of research of the highest quality, with specific reference to Jackson's demonstration of the value in delirium of his concept of "reduction to a more automatic condition."

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