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The Validity of the Meehl M.M.P.I. Psychotic Scale in the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Donald Walton ,
Marcia Mather  and
D. A. Black
Donald Walton
Affiliation:
Winwick Hospital, Warrington
Marcia Mather
Affiliation:
Winwick Hospital, Warrington
D. A. Black
Affiliation:
Rainhill Hospital, near Liverpool
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The detection of early or subclinical schizophrenia is a major psychiatric problem. Patients who are finally classified as schizophrenic often may not have been so considered on previous examination. In other words their true condition was not detected clinically in the first place.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 440 , July 1959 , pp. 869 - 871
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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References

1. Meehl, P. E., “Profile analysis of the M.M.P.I. in differential diagnosis”, J. Appl. Psychol., 1946, 30, 517–521.Google Scholar
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