Factors delaying rehabilitation in inpatient treatment of schizophrenic patients

An empirical study involving 104 German and 208 Soviet schizophrenics showed that the main factors delaying rehabilitation are a large number of previous hospitalizations, long periods preceding hospitalization, the type of schizophrenia, the desired aim of treatment, disturbed relationship of he patient to his or her environment and performance disturbances. Apart from certain personality deviations, the therapeutic measures also involve factors that delay rehabilitation. The rehabilitation barriers mentioned here could be overcome by the more widespread establishment of follow-up care centres.     

Perceiving the language of films.

Children appear to be familiar with the language of film makers or at least to perceive and remember films less well when the rules of this cinematic language are broken. In this experiment a simple action sequence filmed from a static viewpoint was made up into two films of four shots. One film was edited according to the rules of directional continuity specified by Hollywood cinema, that is the four shots were presented so as to preserve the subject's direction of movement across cuts. The other film was edited disregarding these rules. Apart from this difference both films were identical. Children aged seven, nine, and thirteen years watched either of these films and reconstructed the action using pictures representing the four shots. The children who saw the conventional version were better able to reconstruct what they had seen than those who saw the unconventional version.