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AN EXPERIMENTAL RORSCHACH DIAGNOSTIC AID FOR SOME FORMS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.5.360

One of several possible diagnostic perceptanalytic formulæ deducible from a statement about the etiological difference in kind (and not merely of degree) between psychoneurosis and schizophrenia has been developed and applied to a group of followed and not followed patients. This alpha formula differentiated between these 2 mental disorders to a high degree. However, it is applicable only in about one-third of schizophrenic cases. Four additional differentiating criteria have been devised to aid in the differential diagnosis between schizophrenia and organic cerebral disease.

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