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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 110, No. 3

Article | September 01, 1953

THE SELECTION OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS FOR RESEARCH

NATHAN S. KLINE; ASHTON M. TENNEY; GEORGE T. NICOLAOU; BENJAMIN MALZBERG

Am J Psychiatry 1953;110:179-185.

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Director, Research Facility, Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, N. Y., and Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.

Senior Research Scientist, Research Facility, Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, N. Y.

Supervising Psychiatrist, Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, N. Y.

Director, Bureau of Statistics, Department of Mental Hygiene, Albany, N. Y.

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Abstract

Evidence is presented that the present psychiatric diagnostic categories are inadequate. By selecting homogeneous groups of patients for study, both reclassification and investigation of mental disease can proceed together. The steps necessary to increase homogeneity of samples of patients are outlined and an example given of the application of this method at the Rockland State Hospital.

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