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Melvin Sabshin, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1967;17(3):258-264.

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THERE IS a calculated risk in assembling a group of mental health professionals to discuss "normal behavior." To some, such a conference may seem like an invitation to frustration, since they probably have profound doubts as to whether such a phenomenon as normal behavior has corporeal existence in the real world. Others are equally positive that we know a great deal about normality. They ask why we must be preoccupied with new directions in an area which seems to be reasonably well understood as compared to our knowledge of the nuances of psychopathology. Still others are secretly bored with the very words normal behavior. They seem to be such jaded words, eroded of meaning after centuries of repetitious and stereotypic utilization in a plethora of clichés. When it comes to the concept of normal behavior, we are all like partially blind men groping with the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Chicago

From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 1, 1967.

Read before the Conference on New Directions in Research on Normal Behavior, Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Research and Training, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Sept 30, 1966. Reprint requests to 912 S Wood St, Chicago 60612.

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