This study makes an attempt to explore attitudes of neurotic patients inferred from the nature
of the chief presenting complaint, attitudes of neurotic patients inferred from source and …

Attitude scores from a factor analytically developed scale were obtained from 55 psychiatric
inpatients. These were related to measures of social class, treatment, and demographic …

Reexamined the findings of SD Lee (1968 doctoral dissertation) on the tendency of
psychiatric residents to ascribe more severe psychopathology to lower-class patients. 15 …

There is evidence that many clinicians' activities with lower-class patients may be influenced
more by attitudes reflecting a middle-class orientation than by objective criteria …

In recent years increasing attention has focused on the effect social class has on the clinical
picture of various mental disorders as well as the relation of the social class of the …

Investigated the effects of a patient's race and social class on diagnosis, prognosis, and
treatment disposition, using 2 female case protocols that varied randomly across raters as to …

From a survey of the recent literature concerning the prevalence and treatment of mental
illnesses it was concluded that great caution should be exercised in the generalization of …

The authors review previous studies on social attitudes toward the mentally ill and present
data from their field survey on the opinions and attitudes of a blue-collar population toward …

This reprinted article originally appeared in (American Sociological Review, 1953, Vol 18,
163-169).(The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 1954-01146-001.) …

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the social status position of a psychiatric
patient within the community is itself a highly significant and independent determinant of the …