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Values of psychiatric patients
Author(s) -
Morris Charles,
Eiduson Bernice T.,
O'donovan Denis
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830050404
Subject(s) - parallels , psychology , value (mathematics) , psychiatry , paranoid schizophrenia , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychosis , mechanical engineering , machine learning , computer science , engineering
Abstract What is important to emotionally disturbed patients? Does a schizophrenic with paranoid trends conceive of the good life in the same way that a normal person does? Here values of a group of patients are compared with those dominant in the culture in which they live. Comparisons are also made of values among persons with different types of disturbances—a quantitative study which parallels clinical observations of these patients. Investigating value patterns in emotionally disturbed persons may provide new insights into the characters of normal and above‐normal persons.