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A Contribution to the Problem of Measuring the Psychologic Effects of Psychoactive Drugs

LOUIS A. GOTTSCHALK, M.D.; GOLDINE C. GLESER, Ph.D.; KAYLA J. SPRINGER, Ph.D.; STANLEY M. KAPLAN, M.D.; JAY SHANON, M.D.; W. DONALD ROSS, M.D.

AMA Arch Gen Psychiatry 1960;2(6):632-639.

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The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of a method of assessing the subjective and behavioral effects of psychoactive drugs in the human subject. The method involves the psycholinguistic analysis of short samples of the subject’s speech.

Method and Procedure

A brief summary of our method of eliciting and analyzing verbal productions will be given here; details of our method are available elsewhere.^4-6

Subjects are asked by the observer to talk about any interesting or dramatic personal life experience for a five-minute period, during which time the observer indicates he will not reply to any questions until the time period is over. The verbalizations are recorded on a tape recorder, and the material is transcribed by a secretary. The typed copy is the only material that is analyzed. The verbal analysis includes an analysis at the level of word types, according to a grammatical . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Cincinnati

From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan. 14, 1960.

Supported in part by Research Grants MY-1055 from the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and T57-74 from the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry.

We wish to acknowledge our appreciation to Dr. Leon Goldman, Chairman, Department of Dermatology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, who facilitated our investigation of dermatologic patients.

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