For a complete discussion of the study design, see Protocol, NIMH-PSC Collaborative Study on Drug Treatment in Chronic Schizophrenia, Printed Copy, Washington, D.C., April 1965.
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For a dramatic example, see CaseyJesse F. and others, “Combined Drug Therapy of Chronic Schizophrenics,”American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. CXVII, May 1961, p. 1002.
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Aftercare service was limited in this test to foster home or substitute family care. It is apparent from the literature that the vast majority of schizophrenic patients hospitalized for more than two years and eligible for the collaborative study could not live alone or with their own families. The patient's condition as well as the absence or deterioration of family resources seem to be plausible explanations. See Daniel Adelson, “Social Factors in the Placement of the Chronic Schizophrenic Patient,” a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Los Angeles, March 1962; DoehneE. F. and others, “Rehabilitative Potential in ‘Chronic’ Mental Patients,”Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. XII, March 1965, pp. 241–44; M. Genevieve Slear, “Psychiatric Patients: Clinically Improved But Socially Disabled,” Social Work, Vol. IV, April 1959, pp. 64–71.
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The usefulness of this scale for rating behavior has been best demonstrated by Lorr. See LorrMaurice and others, Syndromes of Psychosis, Macmillan Co., New York, 1963, pp. 26–29.
