Inpatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale

Inpatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale

Psychiatry A series of questions posed to Pts on admission to a mental institution, which enables immediate stratification into psychotic types, a term descriptive of attitude and behavior rather than clinical types, schizophrenia, manic-depressive, etc: hostile-paranoid, excited-hostile, excited-grandiose, intropunitive, disorganized, retarded

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