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The Good Prognosis

MERTON H. FRIEDMAN, Ph.D.

AMA Arch Gen Psychiatry 1960;2(3):337-345.

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In recent years there has been increasing recognition by contemporary psychiatry of the urgent need to define its role in the face of burgeoning service demands in the hospital, university, community, and armed forces. One major effect of this role recognition has been the close scrutiny given to the training of resident psychiatrists by the American Psychiatric Association²³ and by the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.¹²

Implicit in the description of "the resident’s feelings of hopelessness, insufficiency, and anxiety in the face of seemingly insurmountable therapeutic problems"²⁴ is a clear recognition of the problems faced by the beginning resident as he enters a specialty where his previous training (medical school, internship) has not been as intensive as in other areas of medicine. In addition, the resident must now face diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic variables of an order not as yet . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Providence, R.I.

From Psychology Section, Psychiatry and Neurology Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept. 11, 1959.

This study was carried out while the author was serving as Staff Psychologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston.

During the planning and execution of this study many helpful suggestions were provided by Mrs. Selma Andrews, Assistant Chief, Social Work Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston; Dr. Merton J. Kahne, Associate Psychiatrist, McLean Hospital, Waverley, Mass., and Mrs. Juanita Handy, Case Work Supervisor, Veterans Administration Regional Office, Providence, R.I.