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Neurotics Who Fail to Take their Drugs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ronald S. Lipman
Affiliation:
Out-patient Studies, Psychopharmacology Service Center, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Karl Rickels
Affiliation:
School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Eberhard H. Uhlenhuth
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Lee C. Park
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Seymour Fisher
Affiliation:
Psychopharmacology Laboratory, Division of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

Extract

Patients who do not comply with therapeutic procedures have been of longstanding concern to the clinician and have presented knotty methodological problems to those involved in evaluating the effectiveness of different treatments and treatment modalities (1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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