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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 127, No. 8

Articles | February 01, 1971

The Therapist Variable

RICHARD I. SHADER; LESTER GRINSPOON; JEROLD S. HARMATZ; JACK R. EWALT

Am J Psychiatry 1971;127:1009-1012.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Associate Director of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Rd., Boston, Mass. 02115

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Director of Psychiatry (Research), Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Rd., Boston, Mass. 02115

Research Psychologist, Harvard Medical School, Research Psychologist, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Rd., Boston, Mass. 02115

Bullard Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Superintendent, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Rd., Boston, Mass. 02115

1971, American Psychiatric Association

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Abstract

Therapists who participated in previous active drug-placebo studies of chronic and acute schizophrenics were rated on the Whitehorn-Betz A-B scale. The ratings were then related to treatment outcome. Patients who had been treated with phenothiazines and by Type A (verbal-intellectual) therapists improved more than those treated with placebo and by Type B (practical-mechanical) therapists, although the results were not statistically significant. The authors stress the importance of further research in this area.

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