Psychoneurotic Profiles in Middle Age

Abstract

The Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (M.H.Q.) is a brief self-rating inventory that is intended to cover the full clinical range of neurotic illness (Crown and Crisp, 1966). It usually takes about 7–10 minutes to complete, and a few minutes to score. Although many questionnaires attempt to measure general neurotic ill-health, the only other short test that purports to rate patients comprehensively in terms of clinical categories (e.g. anxiety state, neurotic depression, obsessional neurosis, hysteria) is Fould's Symptom-Sign Inventory, which requires verbal administration by the examiner and does not cover psychosomatic and phobic syndromes.