Neurotic tendencies in epilepsy.
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چکیده
Many psychiatrists believe that there are special personality traits characteristic of the epileptic. Various writers have referred to these as mental peculiarities, emotional instability, impulsiveness, moral anergia, and incapacity for productive occupation involving initiative and consecutive activity (Spratling, 1904), eccentricity, supersensitiveness, emotional poverty, and rigidity (Clark, 1914), lack of intimate friends, solitariness, lack of gregariousness, tactlessness (Clark, 1918), moroseness, indifference, circumstantial and stereotyped manner of speaking, and limited content of speech, egocentricity, irascibility, hypersociability, and religious devotion (Fleck, 1934). Many psychologists hold the view that a special epileptic syndrome exists, and have even, like Humm and Wadsworth in 1934 and Cattell in 1936, incorporated a special epileptic character-scale into their measuring devices. While this belief has not gone unchallenged there seems to be little objective evidence available with which to assess the value of this conception. If it were found that epileptics differ from normals in various respects the further question arises whether this deviation is due to endogenous causes or is reactive to the disease process itself. The former belief is held by Clark (1918), Clark and Cushing (1931), MacRobert (1916), Jelliffe (1935), and others. This paper presents an experimental investigation of a hypothesis which may be formally stated thus: " Patients suffering from epileptic seizures tend to be emotionally unstable, immature, and neurotic persons ". The hypothesis requires that epileptics shall be differentiated significantly from normal groups on tests known to measure neuroticism.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
دوره 13 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1950