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A repertory grid study of obsessionality: Distinctive cognitive structure or distinctive cognitive content?
Author(s) -
Millar David G.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1980.tb02869.x
Subject(s) - repertory grid , neuroticism , psychology , cognition , portrait , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , psychoanalysis , personality , social psychology , visual arts , art
Fifteen obsessive‐compulsive patients and 15 normal controls were tested with a repertory grid of standard form. The patient group was not more monolithic than normals in cognitive structure (Makhlouf‐Norris & Norris, 1973) but was clearly differentiated from normals and from Ryle & Breen's (1972) general neurotic grid portrait by a very negative, isolated and extreme view of the self.