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Death thoughts in hysteria, antisocial personality, and anxiety neurosis

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A study of death thoughts in primary affective disorder, hysteria, antisocial personality, and anxiety neurosis demonstrated an inverse frequency to seriousness relationship for death thoughts in each diagnostic group. Hysterics reported more less serious death thoughts than did patients with antisocial personality or primary affective disorder.

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  1. Clinical Center, Department of Guidance and Educational Psychology, and Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University, 62901, Carbondale, Illinois

    Lee Spalt M.D. (psychiatrist at the University Health Service, and Associate Professor)

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Spalt, L. Death thoughts in hysteria, antisocial personality, and anxiety neurosis. Psych Quar 48, 441–444 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01562166

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