Some researchers have attempted to connect suicide to a general history of mental illness; others have searched for diagnosis-free suicide risk factors; and still others have argued that different risk profiles may emerge for different diagnoses. In addition to these issues, it appears that suicide completers and suicide attempters show somewhat…

A study of word associations in normal and disturbed children integrated two methods of word association research: pathological features of adult schizophrenic language and psycholinguistic features of developmental changes in children's associations. (Author/KM)

The structural features extracted for the schizophrenics, nonschizophrenic psychiatric patients, and normals were very similar to each other. A group difference was found in the subject's sorting strategy, but its effect on the main findings was judged to be minimal. (Author)

The decade of the 1980s has witnessed a rebirth of concern regarding the chronically mentally ill. The way mental health professionals view families of the chronically mentally ill has changed dramatically, largely because of the emergence of the biological theories of causation for schizophrenia. Innovative programs for families have included…

Increasing evidence that decompensation into acute psychosis by schizophrenics can often be avoided with active pharmacological and psychosocial intervention at the early signs of relapse has stimulated research into the signs and symptoms prodromal to acute psychosis. In this study, 6-week periods prior to 17 psychotic relapses and to 11 relapses…

This paper is concerned with changes which have been proposed in the major current diagnostic system regarding paranoid schizophrenia. It is noted that the proposed changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III) would remove paranoia as a schizophrenic subtype and institute a spectrum description of…

The study compared the performance of schizophrenic patients and normal controls in their ability to direct visual attention. The first experiment compared 12 adult schizophrenic patients with 30 control volunteers in their ability to orient attention in response to peripheral visual cues. The patients were distinguished from controls by a slower…

Demonstrates some of the important factors that should be considered in research into the teaching techniques used with schizophrenic twins. (RB)

The reliability of an abbreviated form of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the Mini-Mult, and its degree of correspondence with the MMPI were evaluated with a sample of 60 hospitalized schizophrenic veterans. The major results indicate respectable validity and reliability coefficients for most Mini-Mult Scales. (Author)

Using families with schizophrenic sons and control families with normal sons, intrafamily communication and schizophrenic thought disorder were evaluated for etiologic versus response basis. Results showed that communication of parents of schizophrenic children was not significantly more disordered than communication in the controlled group. (EK)

Evaluated was the ability of 14 mothers of schizophrenic children (mean age 9 years) to describe objects in such a way that the child was helped to discriminate one object from another. (Author/MC)