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Acute SchizophreniaClinical Effects of the Labeling Process
Howard I. Levene, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1971;25(3):215-222.
Abstract
Diagnostic and treatment interactions between the physician and the patient have role-inducing "side effects." Our present approach to the acutely psychotic adult may assign a "mental illness" role which further injures the person's potential for growth and adaptation. An alternative approach to the diagnosis and treatment of acute schizophrenia is described in a case history. The focus avoids invidious labels resulting from categorizing and suppressing an "illness process"; instead, the diagnostic and treatment interactions define the psychotic experience as offering possibilities for growth which were previously unavailable in the prepsychotic state.
Author Affiliations
San Francisco
From the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 9, 1970.
Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not to be construed as necessarily reflecting the official view or endorsement of the California Department of Mental Hygiene.
Reprint requests to Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, 401 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco 94122.
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