PERSONALITY CHANGES ACCOMPANYING CEREBRAL LESIONS

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GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The purpose of this study has been twofold. The Rorschach method of evaluating "personality structure" was used in some hundred cases at the Montreal Neurological Institute; first, to test its efficacy as a tool in answering questions of both clinical and psychologic interest, and, second, to throw light on the term "organic personality structure" as used in the Rorschach literature. Since these two problems require somewhat different introductions, they may be considered separately. THE RORSCHACH METHOD AS A TOOL IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Mention may be made briefly of five questions to which an answer from the psychologic angle may be of value clinically. Despite an ever growing body of literature dealing with the psychologic status of patients with lesions of the brain, there is still considerable difference of opinion as to whether psychic changes are the inevitable accompaniment of lesions of the brain and removal

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