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Studies in Experimental Psychiatry: II.—Some Contact of p-Factor with Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. Stephenson
W. Stephenson*
Affiliation:
University College, London
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In the tenth Maudsley Lecture a plan was put forward by Prof. Spearman for conducting a large-scale research in psychiatry. The proposal was that many mental hospitals might co-operate in a joint experiment. Psychiatrists would give their psychiatrical and physiological accounts of selected patients; and psychologists would apply specially prepared clinical mental tests to these same patients. The mass material from many hospitals was to be collocated in order to see, as Prof. Spearman says, “what goes with what, and what follows what.”

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 78 , Issue 321 , April 1932 , pp. 315 - 330
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1932 

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References

∗ “Studies in Experimental Psychiatry,” by W. Stephenson, Journ. Meni. Sci., October, 1931, lxxvii, p. 723.Google Scholar

† Dr. D. M. Wilkins has been associated with our work since its inception, and we take this opportunity to express our many thanks for innumerable services rendered.Google Scholar

‡ A Text-book of Psychiatry (1927). Oxford Medical Publications.Google Scholar

∗ See previous paper, “Studies in Experimental Psychiatry : I,” Journ, Meni. Sci., October, 1931.Google Scholar

∗ In tests (1), (3) and (5), the X-score was first converted, on a standard basis, as a correction for quality-differences. Individuals with high X-ability take up a different quality-attitude in the Y-parts of these tests compared with that taken up in the X-parts. This conversion acts as a correction to the crude X-scores, and was only applied to the highest X-scores.Google Scholar

† C. Spearman, Abilities of Man. Macmillan (1927).Google Scholar

∗ A group of 20 non-psychotic women similar to the above psychotics in respect of age and social standing.Google Scholar

∗ Journ. f. Psychol, u. Neurol., viii, 1906.Google Scholar

† Journ. Ment. Sci., October, 1928, lxxiv, p. 653.Google Scholar

∗ “Psychology of Dementia,” Journ. Ment. Sci., January, 1930, vol. lxxvi, p. 1.Google Scholar

∗ Mentioned in lectures before the University, London, 1931.Google Scholar

† Conditioned Reflexes, Oxford University Press, 1927.Google Scholar

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