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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 117, No. 11

Article | May 01, 1961

THE OBSESSIONAL PERSONALITY AND OBSESSIONAL ILLNESS

I. M. INGRAM

Am J Psychiatry 1961;117:1016-1019.

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Lecturer in Psychological Medicine, University of Glasgow; Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, S.W.1.

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An examination of premorbid personality in 77 inpatients with severe obsessional states shows that obsessional personality and illness are intimately connected and that the conventional obsessional traits, present in 84% of the group, justify their general acceptance when re-examined in their original setting. The description by Lewis of "obstinate, morose, irritable" and "submissive, vacillating, uncertain" types was applicable in only 39%, but the results suggest that certain obsessional traits may predispose to obsessional illness more than others.

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