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‘Psychic: Somatic’ Symptoms and Hostility
Author(s) -
FOULDS G. A.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1966.tb00972.x
Subject(s) - hostility , somatization , psychic , neuroticism , psychology , paranoia , somatic anxiety , anxiety , psychiatry , clinical psychology , personality , medicine , psychoanalysis , alternative medicine , pathology
Women, diagnosed by psychiatrists as schizophrenics, paranoid states, psychotic depressives, hysterics, anxiety states or neurotic depressives, were dichotomized within each group on the basis of the Psychic v . Somatic Scale of the Symptom‐Sign Inventory. Male neurotics and character neurotics were similarly dichotomized. The ‘psychic’ group scored higher than the ‘somatic’ group in 10 out of 13 instances on General Hostility and in 12 out of 13 instances on Direction of Hostility (i.e. more intropunitively). It is suggested that somatization of symptoms might be a substitute form of intropunitiveness.