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Conflict Avoidance in Obsessionals and Hysterics, and the Validity of the Concept of Dysthymia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Vernon Hamilton
Vernon Hamilton*
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South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board
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This paper sets out to demonstrate similarities of behaviour between obsessionals and hysterics in responses to perceptual conflict, which might be expected on the basis of psycho-analytical theories, but which could not be predicted from the dimensional framework of personality favoured by Eysenck in which obsessionals and hysterics are found at opposite poles of an introversion-extroversion continuum, and in which anxiety states, depressives and obsessionals are grouped together in one indistinguishable category of dysthymia.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 103 , Issue 432 , July 1957 , pp. 666 - 676
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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