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Psychiatric Types : A Q-Technique Study of 200 Patients

Long Grove Hospital, Epsom, Surrey

ABSTRACT

The need is discussed for new descriptive techniques capable of being used in the evaluation of modem methods of treatment. An exploratory effort in this direction is described, in which a sample of 200 patients was investigated by Q Technique and classified into types. The possibilities and limitations of the method used are discussed and the 20 types and subtypes obtained are set out in considerable detail. Provisional titles are suggested as follows:

The Socially Withdrawn Type (or the Regressed Type).

Sub-type 1A. The Quiet, Depressed, Self-depreciatory sub-type.

Sub-type 1B. The Depressed, Negativistic, Mildly Hostile, Self-displaying sub-type.

Sub-type 1C. The Impulsive, Aggressive, Inadequate Sub-type.

Sub-type 1D. The Weakly Rigid Sub-type.

Type 2. The Self-depreciatory, Rigid and Conscientious Type of Anxious Depression.

Sub-type 2A. The Inert, Reserved and Gentle Sub-type.

Sub-type 2B. The Puritanical, Religious Sub-type.

Sub-type 2C. The Inert, Aloof, Inadequate Sub-type.

Sub-type 2D. The Importunate, Affected, Fastidious Sub-type.

Type 3. The Labile, Plaintive Type of Anxious Depression or Depression with Hysterical Features.

Type 4. The Socialized Backward or Defective Personality Type with Depression.

Type 5. The Fastidious, Conscientious, Imaginative, Cultured Type of Anxious Depression.

Type 6. The Manic Type.

Type 7. The Acute Schizophrenic Type.

Type 7x. An unnamed type related to the Acute Schizophrenic.

Type 8. The Paranoid Depressed Type.

Type 9. The Intellectual, but Over-conscientious, Repressive and Rigid Type of Depressive Personality.

Type 10. The Anxious, Capable, Extraverted Type.

Type 11. The Dull, Shiftless, Irresponsible, Unstable Type, which is probably the Inadequate Psychopath.

Type 12. The Paranoid Personality Type.

Type 13. The Hysterical Personality Type.