The Mask of Sanity

1 March 1951

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Postgraduate Medicine

Vol. 9 (3) , 193-197
https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1951.11694097

Abstract

Psychotic disorders may be concealed behind outer manifestations that give little or no suggestion of anything so serious. The traditional psychiatric criteria for diagnosis and classification are seldom helpful and often misleading in such instances. The seriousness of the masked disorder is often overlooked because peripheral functioning and outer appearance simulate so well all that is demanded by current definitions of sanity.

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This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

CRYPTIC DEPRESSIVE STATES
Southern Medical Journal, 1949
Pseudoneurotic forms of schizophrenia
Psychiatric Quarterly, 1949