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Natural History Studies in Mental Illness

A Discussion Based on a Pilot Study of Obsessional States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. D. Pollitt
J. D. Pollitt*
Affiliation:
St. Thomas's Hospital, London
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The history of mediaeval medicine shows clearly that the decline of a science takes place whenever the tendency to theorize overruns the desire to observe and measure. Psychiatry with its shorter medical history has suffered from this tendency until fairly recent times. Even now, it is possible to estimate the efficiency of a nation's psychiatric progress by comparing the amount of factual research with the emphasis placed on unproven theoretical concepts in clinical practice.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 442 , January 1960 , pp. 93 - 113
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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