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The British Journal of Psychiatry 129: 327-334 (1976)
© 1976 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Personality and symptom pattern in depression

ES Paykel, GL Klerman and BA Prusoff

This paper reports relationships between symptoms and premorbid personality in a varied sample of depressed patients. Symptoms were rated by a psychiatrist at clinical interview; personality was rated by patients on a self-report after clinical improvement, using the Maudsley Personality Inventory and an inventory of obsessive, hysterical and oral personality. Additional ratings on the latter were obtained at interview with a relative. The most prominent finding was that patients with premorbid neuroticism also showed a neurotic rather than an endogenous symptom pattern. Additional relationships were relatively weak but consistent with previous studies. Depressives with neurotic rather than endogenous symptom pattern showed more evidence of oral dependent personality and less obsessionality. Patients with hysterical personalities tended to be less severely ill and to show a pattern characterized by mixed depression and hostility with less evidence of anxiety.


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