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This paper describes a schematic method for teaching the subject of thought process disorder to medical students and beginning psychiatric residents. Several thought disorders are defined in terms of thought linkage and goal attainment, exemplified and graphically depicted.
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Fox, H.A. A Schematic Method for Teaching About Thought Disorder. Acad Psychiatry 5, 53–56 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399794
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