Am J Psychiatry 1976; 133:1269-1274
Copyright © 1976 by American Psychiatric Association
Postpsychotic state, convalescent environment, and therapeutic relationship in schizophrenic outcome
L Kayton, J Beck and SD Koh
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.
