Mothers of the Ss who became schizophrenic tended to exhibit psychosis precipitated by childbirth, instability in relations with men, and antisocial behaviors. (CL)

The goal of the study described here was to learn more about dream content in patients who had recovered from serious depression. The question was asked whether these formerly depressed patients still showed depressive traits in their nocturnal dreams, even though their daytime behavior and mood now approached entirely normal levels. (Author)

The present investigation attempts to compare four formal systematic approaches (loose associations, autism, loss of ego boundaries, and delusions) to the diagnosis of schizophrenia with the traditional, more informal hospital procedures typically used in psychiatric inpatient settings. (Author/RK)

This research attempted to find the causal relation between mood and level of reinforcement. An effort was made to learn what mood change might occur if depressed subjects increased their levels of participation in reinforcing activities. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the present study was to compare the utility of model characteristics of coping, mastery, and positive affect behaviors in modifying psychiatric patients' anxiety and performance in a simulated job interview. (Author)

This study examined whether individuals who are presumably poor tolerators of stress can maintain a posture of psychological equilibrium within a psychologically stressful atmosphere. (Author/RK)

Four psychological theories of paranoid phenomena, termed the shame-humiliation, homosexual, hostility, and homeostatic theories, are compared for their explanatory power. Shame-humiliation theory is considered prefereable because of its greater explanatory range and its ability to include the others as special cases. (Editor)

Examines the role of hemisphericity, that is, the tendency habitually to activate one or the other cerebral hemispheres regardless of the appropriateness of that hemisphere for task demands, and cognitive set as moderating variables in susceptibility to subliminal perception. (Author/RK)

This research attempted to differentiate adolescent poor sleepers from other emotionally disturbed adolescents. (Author/RK)

Article presented an evaluation of Rosenhan's "On Being Sane in Insane Places" (AA 521 951), and the author concluded that a careful examination of the study's methods, results, and conclusion leads to a diagnosis of "logic in remission." (Editor/RK)

The present study was prompted by the ambiguity and equivocal nature of research results with respect to the control orientation within an alcoholic population. The purpose of the investigation was to examine the amount of control both perceived and experienced by alcoholics and nonalcoholics. (Author/RK)

Interpersonal behavior in psychopaths was explored using the Prisoner's Dilemma game. Various personality characteristics frequently cited as distinguishing psychopaths from others were operationalized and studied. (Editor)

Concern about the existence of abnormality or the reality of the distinction between sanity and insanity is in large part philosophical puzzlement. It can be alleviated by an analysis of the meaning and significance of scientific concepts and facts. (Editor)

It was hypothesized that depressed patients who were identified as restrained on the basis of Herman and Polivy's (1975) restraint scale would report having gained weight in conjunction with their depression, whereas unrestrained patients would report weight loss. (Author)