Determination of the Obsessional Personality
PETER HAYS M.B.1
1 Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Clinical Sciences Building, Edmonton 7, Alberta, Canada
The author studied the families of 17 obsessional subjects. He found that genetic, sexual, and environmental factors apparently combined to form the obsessional personality. A brief analysis of the influence of each of these factors on the individual is attempted.