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Citation |
Gosline HI. J. Abnorm. Psychol. (1906) 1917; 12(4): 240-256. |
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(Copyright © 1917, American Psychopathological Association, Publisher Gorham Press) |
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Abstract |
Studied the need for the proper use of words and scientific observations on approximately 250 cases. To reduce the facts to a uniform basis a mathematical method was used. Patients' behavior at the time of the study were summarized from the ward reports of the nurses and at the time of the admission from the card catalogue. The words used by the doctors and nurses were objective descriptions and could be categorized into the strong and the weak groups. Concludes that the words used for describing the patients could be categorized into 3 groups: (1) purely objective symptoms - the first degree of observation, (2) those which had some interpretative value - the second degree of observation and (3) those which were discovered by objective tests and were not interpretative. Psychiatry and psychopathology are two different branches of one science and latter is necessary for the neuropathologist in making clinical pathological correlations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved) |