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A Proposed Scale

LESTER LUBORSKY, Ph.D.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1962;7(6):407-417.

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Introduction and Aims

The concept of "mental health" has become current in the everyday thinking of clinicians despite its global and diversely defined character. The members of the Psychotherapy Research Project of The Menninger Foundation wanted to know whether this concept had enough tangibility and unity of reference to be reliably judged along a single continuum by experienced observers. The vast literature does not deal extensively with this apparently simple question. Most contributors have worked on problems of definition (e.g.,

Senn,²⁰ Mayman¹⁵), although a small but expanding number of attempts have been made to measure specific criteria of health Lorr,¹⁰ Rogers and Dymond,¹⁸ Jahoda,⁸ Kelman and Parloff,⁹ Parloff¹⁷).^*

We came to this question in the early phases of the Psychotherapy Research Project²⁶ when a need was felt for a simple survey instrument to record shorthand judgments of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PHILADELPHIA

Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 20, 1962.

The author is acting partly as an integrator and a reporter of work carried out by the Psychotherapy Research in Project of The Menninger Foundation of which he is a member. At the time the Health-Sickness Rating Scale was created in 1951-1952, the group comprised the following members: Drs. Benjamin Rubinstein, Chairman; Gerald Aronson; Paul Bergman; Michalina Fabian; Robert Holt; Hellmuth Kaiser; Lester Luborsky; Gardner Murphy, and Donald Watterson.

The work of the project has been generously supported initially by the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry and subsequently by the Ford Foundation.

Several members of the present group participating in the Psychotherapy Research Project have contributed suggestions for the manuscript: Drs. Robert Wallerstein, Lewis Robbins, Gardner Murphy, Helen Sargent, Paul Bergman, Robert Holt, and Richard Siegal—especially the last 2. Drs. Holt and Bergman have been associated with the development of the scale over many years. Many former colleagues have been active in collecting the reliability data: Drs. Donald Watterson, Judy Shöne Abelson, Howard Williams, Tom Hollon, Paul Bergman, and Lewis Robbins.

The statistical work has been done by Miss Lolafaye Coyne and Mrs. Elaine Hayden.

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