John C. Whitehorn

Studies of the Doctor as a Crucial Factor for the Prognosis of Schizophrenic Patients

JOHN C. WHITEHORN, M.D.* Henry Phipps Professor Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University Y task is to present succinctly the main points of some studies extending M over about a quarter of a century, more intensively pursued in the last decade in association with Dr. Barbara Betz. These studies have been concerned with the nature of the transactions between schizophrenic patients and their physicians, and the differential characterization of those physicians who have a high proportion of their schizophrenic patients improve, as contrasted with those physicians who have a relatively lower proportion of schizophrenic patients improve.

4. National Support for Behavioral Science

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