Mental State of the Epileptic Patient

The so-called epileptic personality as investigated by the Kent-Rosanoff test.

“…Specifically, an attempt was made to determine whether or not the responses made on this test by patients known to have recurring convulsive seizures were in any manner characteristic of them. 1 The Kent-Rosanoff test (15; 17) may be described as a wordassociation type of test intended to demonstrate the presence of personality aberrations (if any) by identifying in a given subject departures from the responses characteristically made on the test by so-called normal subjects. The Kent-Rosanoff list consists of 100 stimulus words selected and arranged in such a manner as to avoid (or at least to minimize) the likelihood of touching off unique personality engrammes.…”

“…Comparison of the data obtained by testing normal and pathological subjects seemed to Kent and Rosanoff to reveal among the latter evidence of a weakening of the normal tendency to respond by common reactions. In effect, therefore, the Kent-Rosanoff study resolves itself into: "(i) an analysis and classification of individual reactions and (2) an attempt to determine what relationship, if any, exists between the 1 The writers are not concerned in the present paper with the validity of the Kent-Rosanoff test itself, but rather with the question as to whether or not by the administration of a standardized procedure to (i) an experimental ("epileptic") group and (2) a matched control group, any significant disparities arc demonstrable. This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

The so-called epileptic personality as investigated by the Kent-Rosanoff test.

“…Specifically, an attempt was made to determine whether or not the responses made on this test by patients known to have recurring convulsive seizures were in any manner characteristic of them. 1 The Kent-Rosanoff test (15; 17) may be described as a wordassociation type of test intended to demonstrate the presence of personality aberrations (if any) by identifying in a given subject departures from the responses characteristically made on the test by so-called normal subjects. The Kent-Rosanoff list consists of 100 stimulus words selected and arranged in such a manner as to avoid (or at least to minimize) the likelihood of touching off unique personality engrammes.…”

“…Comparison of the data obtained by testing normal and pathological subjects seemed to Kent and Rosanoff to reveal among the latter evidence of a weakening of the normal tendency to respond by common reactions. In effect, therefore, the Kent-Rosanoff study resolves itself into: "(i) an analysis and classification of individual reactions and (2) an attempt to determine what relationship, if any, exists between the 1 The writers are not concerned in the present paper with the validity of the Kent-Rosanoff test itself, but rather with the question as to whether or not by the administration of a standardized procedure to (i) an experimental ("epileptic") group and (2) a matched control group, any significant disparities arc demonstrable. This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

The so-called epileptic personality as investigated by the Kent-Rosanoff test.

“…Specifically, an attempt was made to determine whether or not the responses made on this test by patients known to have recurring convulsive seizures were in any manner characteristic of them. 1 The Kent-Rosanoff test (15; 17) may be described as a wordassociation type of test intended to demonstrate the presence of personality aberrations (if any) by identifying in a given subject departures from the responses characteristically made on the test by so-called normal subjects. The Kent-Rosanoff list consists of 100 stimulus words selected and arranged in such a manner as to avoid (or at least to minimize) the likelihood of touching off unique personality engrammes.…”

“…Comparison of the data obtained by testing normal and pathological subjects seemed to Kent and Rosanoff to reveal among the latter evidence of a weakening of the normal tendency to respond by common reactions. In effect, therefore, the Kent-Rosanoff study resolves itself into: "(i) an analysis and classification of individual reactions and (2) an attempt to determine what relationship, if any, exists between the 1 The writers are not concerned in the present paper with the validity of the Kent-Rosanoff test itself, but rather with the question as to whether or not by the administration of a standardized procedure to (i) an experimental ("epileptic") group and (2) a matched control group, any significant disparities arc demonstrable. This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

The so-called epileptic personality as investigated by the Kent-Rosanoff test.

“…Specifically, an attempt was made to determine whether or not the responses made on this test by patients known to have recurring convulsive seizures were in any manner characteristic of them. 1 The Kent-Rosanoff test (15; 17) may be described as a wordassociation type of test intended to demonstrate the presence of personality aberrations (if any) by identifying in a given subject departures from the responses characteristically made on the test by so-called normal subjects. The Kent-Rosanoff list consists of 100 stimulus words selected and arranged in such a manner as to avoid (or at least to minimize) the likelihood of touching off unique personality engrammes.…”

“…Comparison of the data obtained by testing normal and pathological subjects seemed to Kent and Rosanoff to reveal among the latter evidence of a weakening of the normal tendency to respond by common reactions. In effect, therefore, the Kent-Rosanoff study resolves itself into: "(i) an analysis and classification of individual reactions and (2) an attempt to determine what relationship, if any, exists between the 1 The writers are not concerned in the present paper with the validity of the Kent-Rosanoff test itself, but rather with the question as to whether or not by the administration of a standardized procedure to (i) an experimental ("epileptic") group and (2) a matched control group, any significant disparities arc demonstrable. This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”