Resocialization is the objective of rehabilitation in work, resettlement to live outside the hospital, and reabsorption in the community. Two important aids in achieving rehabilitation in schizophrenics are the phenothiazine drugs and the introduction of industrial works in hospitals. (Editor/SB)

A method for the use of art procedures to understand relationships in families with no, one, or two schizophrenic twins is discussed. (Author)

Research supported by United States Public Health Service Grant MH-12908. Portions of the study were presented to the Society for Psychophysiological Research, San Diego, 1967.

Cognitive and attentional deficits were assessed in school-age children with either a schizophrenic, an affectively disordered, or a normal parent (N=675). Children whose parents met the more stringent criteria for schizophrenia performed somewhat more deviantly than children whose parents met more general criteria. (Author)

Single word and continuous association test behaviors of children (mean age 15.1 years) at high (N=207) and low (N=104) risk for schizophrenia were analyzed as part of a longitudinal prospective study. (SBH)

Studies determining the prevalence of autistic children are reviewed. The findings of the survey, conducted in British Columbia in 1978 for the purpose of enumerating the children identified as autistic, psychotic, or schizophrenic, are presented. Among variables described are age, sex, school placement, manner of communication, and existence of…

Several explanations have been offered in recent research for schizophrenic symptomatology within an interpersonal situation. This study attempts to separate two possible antecedent conditions, contextual emotionality and demand for self-disclosure, in order to clarify the immediate antecedents of symptomatic expression. (Editor/RK)

Thirty chronic schizophrenics (15 process and 15 reactive) and 15 normal control speakers described colors displayed in three-chip sets containing a referent and two nonreferent colors. Concludes that poor communication accuracy in long-term schizophrenics results from failure to include a self-editing stage as a part of the communication process.…

Presents a new, short, self-administered questionnaire that assesses the quality of life in seven areas. Evidence for the reliability and validity of the questionnaire was based on data gathered from 971 clients; results indicate instrument reliability. The questionnaire features low-cost administration and valid psychometric properties. (RJM)

The effects of knowledge of psychiatry and psychological testing on the ability to feign schizophrenia on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory were studied with 54 clinically trained participants, 24 undergraduates with no clinical training, and 51 patients. Results suggest that even mental health professionals have difficulty feigning…

The follow-up study examined 16 schizo-affective children after a mean of 16 years. In comparison to purely schizophrenic controls, subjects showed an increased incidence of affective psychoses, suicide in the ancestry, and more pre-morbidly well-adjusted personalities. The schizo-affective psychoses had mainly an acute-recurrent character.…

The perception of emotions from facial expression was studied with 68 schizotypal individuals and a control group (n=40). The results did not support the hypotheses that the schizotypal group would display more restricted similarity range in judging emotions, judge emotions as less pleasant, and display less accuracy in labelling emotions. (SW)

Discusses studies of the neurobiology of memory and cognition. Presents the findings of anatomic and physiological studies of monkeys that have led to discoveries about the structure of working memory. (MCO)