The Origins and Course of Psychopathology

1. Relationships Among Variables Affecting Development and Course of Psychopathology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 377-377

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   2. Detecting Predictors of Rare Events: Demographic, Family, and Personal Deviance as Predictors of Stages in the Progression Toward Narcotic Addiction

      • Lee N. Robins, Darlene H. Davis, Eric Wish

      Pages 379-406

   3. Problems of Conceptualization and Design in Research on the Evaluation of Treatment for Drug Abuse

      • S. B. Sells

      Pages 407-438

2. Back Matter

   Pages 449-455

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The Society for Life History Research in Psychopathology is a group of investigators from many disciplines who share an interest in studying the longitudinal aspects of psychiat­ ric disorder. Sociologists, psychologists, statisticians, psychiatrists, epidemiologists, and others each bring to the study of life history the expertise and vantage point arising from his or her unique training and experience. This volume, the fifth in a series, is devoted to explor­ ing the methods used to contribute to the understanding of the complex unfolding of a human life as it avoids, copes with, or succumbs to psychiatric disorder. We hope that by describing these methods, their current status, advantages, and short­ comings, this volume can serve as a guidepost to all who are involved in our field to help understand it further and to generate solutions for the many crucial problems we face. J. S. H. B. M. R. Contents Introduction . . . . . 1 John S. Strauss, Haroutun M. Babigian, and Merrill Roff SECTION I CONTROLLED VS. NATURALISTIC APPROACHES CHAPTER 1 Controlled vs. Naturalistic Experiments: Application of the Life Table Method 7 Myrna M. Weissman CHAPTER 2 The Psychiatric Case Register: A Versatile Device for the Application of Multiple Methodological Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Haroutun M. Babigian and Dolores B. Jones CHAPTER 3 A Survey of Issues Related to the Analysis of Observational Data in Longitudinal Research . . 43 John E.

• Psychopath
• complex
• experiment
• psychiatric disorder
• psychopathology
• research
• schizophrenia
• stress
• therapy

• University of Rochester, Rochester, USA

  John S. Strauss, Haroutun M. Babigian

• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

  Merrill Roff

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