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SAMUEL J. BECK, Ph.D.

AMA Arch Gen Psychiatry 1960;2(4):408-420.

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Of the six reaction patterns that we isolated in the Michael Reese Hospital researches in schizophrenia,¹ an identifying feature in SR-2 is that it employs one, but not the other, of Bleuler’s two "primary processes."² In their affectivity the patients who follow this pattern are pathologic; in their intellectual life they are integrated. Their emotions are frequently in a high ferment, in labile mobilization, and at such times dominate the person’s total behavior. At times the patient overresponds; at others he underresponds; i.e., in either event, he responds inappropriately. Motor discharges may be excessive, purposeless; or take the form of a persistent unrest. While in this state the patient is unable to postpone a satisfaction or an expression of feelings which may be asocial or antisocial. The range of feeling release is restricted to the irritability-impulsivity level.

Yet these patients are in the main accurate in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Chicago

Professorial lecturer, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Chicago, and the Division of Psychiatry, Michael Reese Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct. 8, 1959.

This research is being conducted under Grant No. 1710, Department of Public Welfare, State of Illinois.

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