A significant interaction of WAIS subtests with diagnosis and a statistically reliable interaction of Halstead Battery subtests with diagnosis and age showed differences between chronic schizophrenics and Ss with nonlateralized brain damage in intellectual deficit patterns. These results suggested differing intellectual deficit patterns in chronic…

Analysis of variance was employed to evaluate the therapeutic relationship offered to schizophrenic and psychoneurotic patients by A-B type therapists. Results are discussed in context of the Whitehorn-Betz original claim that the differential therapeutic success of A-B type therapists with schizophrenic and psychoneurotic clients are a function…

Article based on a doctoral dissertation submitted to Syracuse University. Reprints from D.L. Streiner, Department of Psychiatry, Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, P.O. Box 585, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Based in part on an MS thesis (Fuller), University of Massachusetts.

Examines the relationship between relevant clinical symptoms and the predictability of language utterances in schizophrenia. Specifically, investigates the sensitivity of the Cloze procedure to various modes of language response, attempting to detect differences between language samples written by schizophrenics and controls. Analyzes experimental…

Reports that schizophrenic-labeled persons consistently rated television programs as closer to reality than did a sample of nonschizophrenic respondents. (FL)

A common pool of schizophrenic subjects was subdivided and analyzed three separate times on the basis of three sets of criteria: paranoid versus nonparanoid, neurologically normal versus neurologically abnormal, and long-term institutionalization versus short-term institutionalization. Differences in ability levels and patterns were determined for…

Article discusses way in which an individual's struggle for autonomy may be expressed through compliance, self-destructiveness and submissiveness. (RW)

Attempts to determine whether PI (proactive inhibition) release for taxonomic word categories could be observed for chronic schizophrenics. (Author/RK)

Attempts to give a clearer picture of discourse analysis and the assumptions behind it, focusing on its use in the domain of schizophrenic speech, to provide a better indication of both the promise and the procedures of a discourse-analytic approach to the speech productions of psychiatric populations. (Author/CB)

Compared participants (N=24) in six-session educational support group offering family caregivers information about schizophrenia, training in problem-solving skills for managing patient behavior, and greater access to social support and community resources with matched controls (N=24). Participant caregivers reported significantly reduced anxiety…