Female and male neurotic depressives in an outpatient psychiatric clinic were compared on measures of subjective distress, interpersonal concerns, and types of treatment given. There were essentially no differences between the two groups on the patient self-report measures. However, female patients were found to have significantly more therapy sessions that the male neurotic depressives. Also, the female patients were more likely than the male patients to receive psychotropic medication, especially the more potent antidepressant variety.

The purpose of Lhis study was to investigate the relationship between therapists' scores on the Community Mental Health Ideology Scale and the Democratic Values Scale and their ratings of patient ease histories on a number of altitudinal dimensions. Thirty-three therapists rated each of eight case histories of psychiatric outpatients on likabilily, comfort, interest in treating, interest in friendship, and prognosis. Patients' social class, diagnosis, and insight level were systematically varied within the case histories. The results provide support for the contention that previously reported preferences for middle-class, high-insight, and less disturbed patients are related to therapists' degree of adherence to community mental health ideology and democratic values.There arc numerous reports showing that various patient characteristics are related to acceptance into psychotherapy (Garfield,

Differences in patterns of utilization of psychiatric services were studied in 178 adult outpatients who either had dropped out of, or had terminated from treatment with the consent of their therapists. The Monroe County Psychiatric Case Register was employed to determine the use of psychiatric services by these patients within a period of two years before and two years after their admission to a community mental health center (CMHC). Dropping out of treatment was associated with a pattern of utilization of multiple psychiatric facilities. Of those individuals who made contact with a psychiatric facility both prior to and subsequent to their admission to the CMHC, the dropout group made, on the average, approximately twice as many contacts per person as the terminator group.

To study the relationship of psychological differentiation and creativity while taking into account the dimension of mobility and the association between differentiation and mobility, 186 male undergraduates were given the Embedded Figures Test and human figure drawings in order to assess psychological differentiation. Also, mobility, the ability to shift on demand from conventional, common modes of thought to unusual, less regulated thinking, was measured by means of word association and object sorting. The Revised Biographical Inventory and the Remote Associates Test assessed creativity. Results showed a tendency for more differentiated individuals to be more mobile. Performance on the remote associates was consistently related to the differentiation measure as predicted as were scores on human drawings. Over-all, creativity was more closely related to differentiation than was mobility. The data did not support the predicted interaction between psychological differentiation and creativity with mobility as a moderator variable.

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