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The Relationship Between Anxiety-Depression and the Neuroses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

G. A. Foulds  and
A. Bedford
G. A. Foulds
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF
A. Bedford
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF
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In a recent article a hierarchy of classes of personal illness was proposed (Foulds and Bedford, 1975), consisting of four classes, each with its constituent groups, apart from the highest class. These were: Class 4—Delusions of Disintegration (with, as yet, no groups); Class 3—Integrated Delusions (the groups being ‘Delusions of Contrition’; ‘Delusions of Grandeur’ and ‘Delusions of Persecution’); Class 2—Neurotic Symptoms (Conversion; Dissociative; Phobic; Compulsive and Ruminative symptoms); Class 1—Dysthymic States (states of Anxiety; of Depression and of Elation).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 128 , Issue 2 , February 1976 , pp. 166 - 168
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1976 

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Foulds, G. A. & Bedford, A. (1975) Hierarchy of classes of personal illness. Psychological Medicine, 5, 181–92.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Foulds, G. A., Bedford, A. & Csapo, K. G. (1975) Class change in the personal illness hierarchy. British Journal of Psychiatry, 127, 316–19.Google Scholar
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