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Motor Behaviour of Chronic Schizophrenics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ivor H. Jones
Ivor H. Jones*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Sciences Building, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Wing and Freudenberg (1961) assessed the response of schizophrenic subjects to regimes of active and passive encouragement. Their findings suggest that a subgroup of very inactive patients exists and that this group responds dramatically to incentives. The purpose of this study is to re-examine the behaviour and attempt to define this subgroup. Such an examination may provide information which could be applied to treatment programmes. It may also contribute to a better understanding of the nature of the schizophrenic's volitional defect.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 524 , July 1969 , pp. 843 - 850
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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