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ALAN A. STONE, M.D.; STANLEY H. ELDRED, M.D.

AMA Arch Gen Psychiatry 1959;1(2):177-179.

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It is part of psychiatric lore that on occasion there develop marked paranoid delusions during quite varied therapeutic attempts at rehabilitation of chronic schizophrenic patients. However, this aspect of psychiatric lore is apparently not well documented in the literature. A search of the psychological abstracts revealed no article specifically devoted to this subject. (One related reference discussed a tendency toward increased hallucinations during activation of chronic schizophrenics.³) One of the case histories presented by Freeman, Cameron, and McGhie,² describes the onset of delusions during work with a chronic schizophrenic. This is ascribed by them to some adverse interaction with a relative. Azima and Wittkower¹ have also described a chronic case in which delusions developed during active attempts at rehabilitation. Both these instances occurred in patients subjected to intensive therapeutic endeavors with interpretive techniques. We have had the opportunity to follow the development of organized . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Waverley, Mass.

From the McLean Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept. 25, 1958.

The observations presented in this paper were made during the early stages of a research study which is under the direction of Dr. Stanley Eldred and is supported by the Commonwealth Fund. Dr. Jacob Christ assisted me in the collection of Lorr Scale data. Dr. Lewis Sherman scored the Lorr Scale data. It is obvious that this paper was contributed to by both these people. Miss Helen Meleedy, R. N., and Mr. Herbert Mallinson did most of the work reported here.

Psychological Abstracts, 1927 through 1957.

For a complete description of the Lorr Rating Scale, see Veterans Administration Technical Bulletin 10-507.⁴

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