PSYCHIATRIC REACTION PATTERNS TO IMIPRAMINE

DONALD F. KLEIN, M.D.,2 MAX FINK, M.D.s Clinical psychiatric experience demon- justment. strates a wide range of variation in be- psychiatric resident and his supervisor the havioral responses to physiological thera- patient's progress in psychotherapy, aHec- pies. Present techniques of evaluating tive and symtomatic state, utilization of hos- vising psychiatrist, with the management possible to characterize these subjects of medication restricted to the research their pretreatment behavioral patterns staff. alone, and these patterns did not occnl' Before starting medication each patient among those groups showing an imipra- is interviewed by a research psychiatrist. mine eHect.