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Psychotic Behavioral Types A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Abstract: EFFORTS HAVE recently been made in a series of studies 1-3 to establish the existence of distinctive behavioral types among hospitalized functional psychotics. Basic data consisted of ratings obtained on the Inpatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale 4 (IMPS) during a conventional psychiatric interview. The patient subgroups or types were then evolved through the application of computerized typological analyses. Many equivalent subgroups were identified within acute, chronic, and long-term patient samples. Seven of the nine types found were similarly defined for both men and women. In the original study, six psychotic types with distinctive symptom profiles were isolated within a broad sample of 556 acute psychotics. The subgroups were named excited, excited-hostile, retarded, anxious-depressed, hostile-paranoid, and disorganized. The second study yielded nine patient types within a sample of 258 newly admitted acute schizophrenics. Subsequently three typological analyses of large samples of untreated acute, chronic, and long-term psychotics yielded nine subgroups. In addition

The assessment of social disability.

Abstract: TWO developments have significantly altered the assessment of deviant behavior: the introduction of computers and the emphasis on social rather than psychological functioning. The computer has become indispensable for the modern scientist. He relies on it for medical literature analysis and retrieval, 1 for the establishment of electronic data banks for use in clinical medicine, for computer-based recordings of physician's findings and comments, 2 and for self-administered screening systems for newly admitted patients. 3,4 In the narrower field of psychiatry, there exist computer-based methods for the initial psychiatric interview, 5 recording systems for all psychiatric data, 6 and programs for arriving at differential diagnosis. 7,8 An attempt to simulate the verbal behavior of physician and patient led to the substitution of computers for living persons. 9 Man-machine interaction thus can be expected in the future to play a greater role in the