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Kenneth Z. Altshuler, MD; W. Edwards Deming, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1967;17(3):367-375.

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EVALUATION of the states of illness and change in patients is a major and continuing problem in psychiatry. Since ambiguities of definition and interpretation arise unavoidably when rating scales are relied upon, a number of investigators have attempted a shift to criteria that are more objective. For an altered focus, emphasizing interview form and process rather than the content of a patient's productions, the interaction chronograph has seemed a promising method. The method purports to predict a number of characterologic qualities by interpreting from a variety of measures, including the length of a subject's replies or silences, the number of times he interrupts the interviewer's questions, etc. Stable over time in both normal persons and in chronic, untreated patients, these measures and their correlates have been found by Chapple and others to vary with changes in clinical state, medication, and number of hours of psychotherapy. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec 22, 1966.

Read in part before the Fourth World Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid, Sept 9, 1966.

Reprint requests to 722 W 168th St, New York 10032 (Dr. Altshuler).

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