A long-term follow-up of adolescent psychiatric patients provided a sample of 65 subjects who had at some time received a hospital diagnosis of schizophrenia. Different developmental patterns and family characteristics indicated within-sample differences that suggest more homogeneous subgroups that go beyond common prognostic discriminations.…

Explores the interrelationships of two measures, based on the Hutt Adaptation of the Bender Gestalt Test (HABGT), of psychopathology and of perceptual adience-abience with two different populations: hospitalized schizoprenics and out patient psychotherapy patients. Schizophrenics were found to be higher in severity of psychopathology and lower in…

The results indicated that normal Ss generally perceived their parents as exhibiting sex-appropriate behaviors to a greater extent than did disturbed Ss; a smaller proportion of individuals in the disturbed groups viewed their fathers as possessing masculine-instrumental traits, and their mothers as having feminine-expressive characteristics.…

Twelve male subjects were divided into three groups (model-plus-reinforcement (MR), model-only, and control) to determine if the presence of a verbalizing model to 35mm slides would elicit increased speech. Verbalization increased over treatments, especially in the MR group. Generalization to the word occurred in only three subjects. (Author/SJL)

Schizophrenics were differentiated from their siblings in tendencies to see themselves as symbiotically attached to their mothers and failing to be accommodated to by their fathers. Schizophrenics tend to be aligned with the same sex parent. Findings may help explain the psychosexual identification difficulties of schizophrenics. (Author)

Examines the dialogue communication behavior of a group of chronic, male schizophrenics and demonstrates a relation between these same indices of communication behavior and types of anxiety expression. (Editor/RK)

A covert self-instructional program was used to reduce the frequency of a hospitalized chronic schizophrenic's inappropriate verbalizations. A marked reduction in the frequency of the target behavior accompanied the treatment intervention, and improved verbal behavior was directly responsible for the decision to discharge the subject from the…

An investigator's method of selecting schizophrenic and control subjects for comparison can assure either a difference or a lack of difference between groups on almost any kind of task that requires a voluntary response. Discusses how researchers should select subjects and the inferences that may reasonably be drawn from studies of schizophrenic…

A previous study found that 5-year-old children of schizophrenic mothers were impaired on visual attention tasks as compared with controls. No difference was observed in 6-year-olds, however. This study reexamined the attentive behavior of some of these children 3 years later. (Editor)

Distributions of psychiatric classifications among 42,479 persons with mental retardation were reviewed to determine relative rates of disorders for persons with both mental retardation and mental disorder. Analyses indicated that rates of reported schizophrenic and psychotic disorders were generally higher than expected relative to rates of other…