Associative Tendencies in Psychoneurotics 1Paper read at the annual meeting of the Association of Consulting Psychologists, Philadelphia, May 6, 1933.
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The present study is an attempt to apply the free association method to a group of psychoneurotic adults in order to determine the association tendencies characteristic of psychoneurotic individuals. More specifically, the problem is to determine the various features shown, relations between these features, the differentiation of the psychoneurotic association pattern from that of the juvenile, the normal adult, the psychotic, and a consideration of the bearing of these results upon psychoneurotic behavior. Subjects for the experiment were 50 adult psychoneurotics, 12 male and 38 female, ranging in age from 20 to 35 years. Subgroups of the general classification were disregarded, the purpose being a study of the association tendencies of the general group showing psychoneurotic behavior. This is necessitated by several considerations: the typical psychoneurotic is a mixture of a whole
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