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KMID : 0351619750160010277
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Kyungpook Medical Journal
1975 Volume.16 No. 1 p.277 ~ p.293
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A Study on Sexual Identity of the Paranoid Psychotics
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Abstract
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Genetic mechanism of paranoid condition has still remained obscure though several hypotheses have been proposed, however, one of the widely accepted hypotheses has dealt with sexual pathology.
This study is to find whether sexual pathology, overt or covert, plays any significant role in genetic mechanism of paranoid condition in Korean culture.
For studying the nature of sexual pathology, two areas were investigated, ie, nature of sexual and parental identification by using the following scales;
1) For studying sexual identification;
Hathaway´s masculinity-femininity scale, Pepper and Strong´s sexual identification scale of ~I~IPIy
Wheeler and Schafer´s homosexual indices of Rorschach test, and sentence completion test.
2) For studying parental identification ;
Emotional closeness toward parent with the aide of i~IMPI and sentence completion test.
76 paranoid patients were studied and the result were compared to those of control groups: 71 non-paranoid schizophreics, 72 neurotics, and 122 healthy adults.
The summary of the study is made as follows:
1) Regarding a particular reference to latent homosexu~~l traits in paranoid patients, no significant difference among all. the studied groups was found on Rorschach test.
2) Hetero and homosexual attitude on sentence completion test, and -the nature of masculinityfem.inininity and sexual identification on M´VIPI, showed that paranoid psychotics were deviated to a pathological degree from the group of healthy adult, however, there was no significant difference noted comparing to the other patient groups.
3) The notion that paranoid patients were emotionally more close to the opposite sexed parent and hostile toward the same sexed parent vas hardly justified by this study.
With the above findings obtained from this study, the author is under the impression that the confusion of gender identity i~ Pot exclusively found in paranoid patients, but rather in psychiatric patients at large.
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