The authors evaluated the following variables in the 2-3-year outcomes
of 30 schizophrenic patients: the acute/chronic dichotomy, the presence of
a postpsychotic regressive state, the quality of the convalescent
environment, and the formation of a therapeutic relationship. They found
that the presence of a postpsychotic regressive state was not associated
with either good or poor short-term outcome; that the diagnosis of acute
schizophrenia was almost invariably followed by good outcome, but a
diagnosis of chronic schizophrenia had little predictive value; and that a
favorable convalescent environment and the presence of a therapeutic
relationship were signigicantly associated with good outcome.Abstract Teaser