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A Short Scale for Rating Paranoid Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

P. H. Venables  and
N. O'Connor
P. H. Venables
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5
N. O'Connor
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5
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Experimental studies by O'Connor (2) and O'Connor and Rawnsley (3) have indicated the value of separating chronic schizophrenics into those who exhibit and those who do not exhibit paranoid symptoms. Other work by O'Connor and Venables (4) and Venables and O'Connor (6) has shown that performance of schizophrenic patients on experimental laboratory tasks may be clarified by dividing them into active or withdrawn groups by means of a rating scale (Venables, 5) in addition to a division on the basis of the presence of paranoid symptoms.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 440 , July 1959 , pp. 815 - 818
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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