The Developmental Approach and Process-reactive Schizophrenia: A Review*

Predictors of Outcome in Schizophrenia: The Process-reactive Dimension

“…In particular, the process-reactive dimension, based on distinctions between good and poor premorbid social and sexual adjustment and measured by part I of the Phillips Scale (Phillips 1953), has been among the most important ways of categorizing schizophrenia in the psychological literature. Literally thousands of studies have been based on the process-reactive dimension and on good vs. poor premorbid social adjustment—two related, but not necessarily identical, concepts (DeWolfe 1968; Garmezy 1970; Fowles et al 1970; Higgins 1971; Chapman and Chapman 1973; Evans, Goldstein, and Rodnick 1973; Bromet, Harrow, and Kasl 1974; Strauss and Carpenter 1974; Putterman and Pollack 1976; Quitkin, Rifkin, and Klein 1976).…”