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The Applicability of the Foulds and Bedford Hierarchy Model to Mania and Hypomania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

V. E. Bagshaw
Affiliation:
Tayside Area Clinical Psychology Department; now at Department of Psychiatry, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU
F. M. McPherson
Affiliation:
Tayside Area Clinical Psychology Department, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, Dundee DD2 5NF, Scotland

Summary

A group of 30 manic and hypomanic patients was assessed on the Delusions-Symptoms-States Inventory and did not appear to conform well to Foulds' and Bedford's hierarchy model. Failure to fit the hierarchy was caused by lack of scores in the Neurotic Symptom Class. The relationship between delusions of Grandeur and state of Elation, which was found to be inclusive and non-reflexive, did, however, support the hierarchy model.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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