Am J Psychiatry 1975; 132:919-923
Copyright © 1975 by American Psychiatric Association
Functioning at the clinical-research interface: the clinical-research meeting
M Sacks, eb Fink and WT Carpenter
The authors describe their experience in carrying out clinical and
psychobiological research in a therapeutic milieu setting. The clinical-
research meeting, composed of clinical-care staff with secondary research
responsibilities, researchers, and acutely psychotic patients, proved to be
a useful mechanism for identifying and resolving inevitable problems at the
clinical-research interface and enhanced the effectiveness of research
implementation and patient care. The authors discuss three specific areas
where covert issues threatened to undermine the work of the unit-the
abrogation of research responsibility, the abrogation of clinical
responsibility, and intergroup competition and envy.
