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The Significance of Intra-Individual Diagnostic Levels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

G. A. Foulds
G. A. Foulds*
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Edinburgh
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The Symptom-Sign Inventory (SSI) consists of 80 questions presented orally. The administration and part of the scoring have already been described in some detail (Foulds, 1962); but, since then, a continuum has been suggested from neurosis through integrated psychosis to non-integrated psychosis. This continuum is considered to represent increasing degrees of failure to maintain or establish mutual personal relationships (Foulds, 1965). Measurement of this continuum, which has only been completed for women, involves three scales.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 477 , August 1965 , pp. 761 - 768
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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