ENURESIS AND OTHER FACTORS IN NORMAL AND IN PSYCHOTIC PERSONS
- 1 October 1938
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 40 (4) , 699-706
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1938.02270100071004
Abstract
The present comparative study is concerned with the incidence and intercorrelations of enuresis and other factors in 475 normal children (previously reported1) and 224 psychotic subjects observed at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital.2To unify the material, for the adults only selected traits occurring in childhood were recorded. MATERIAL Diagnostically, of the 224 psychotic subjects 111 were schizophrenic and 46 had an affective psychosis (17 having the depressed, 18 the manic and 11 another form). As the remaining 67 subjects comprised series too small to be statistically significant, they were combined into one class which will be referred to herein as "the remainder." This group included 10 with a paranoid state, 12 with dementia paralytica, 18 with an undiagnosed psychosis, 17 with a schizoaffective disorder and 10 with miscellaneous diseases (2 with psychosis associated with other disease of the brain or nervous system, 1 with psychosis and mental deficiency,Keywords
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