Note: Experimental Study of Depressive Illness

Behavior modification techniques for treating depression.

“…The author reports that after 21 sessions the patient lost most of her symptoms. Shapiro, Neufeld and Post (1962) also used desensitization but obtained only moderate success with an intensely depressed patient.…”

Initial study using fixed-role and rational-emotive therapy in treating public-speaking anxiety.

“…Its central theme is that the disturbed person must learn to depropagandize, by thought and action, basic irrational ideas he has acquired in the course of life. Experimental studies comparing RET with other methods are also lacking, although Shapiro and Ravenette (1959) and Shapiro, Neufield, and Post (1962) have reported clinical studies in which objective measures of improvement were taken during the RET treatment of paranoid and depressive behaviors. Matarazzo (1965) has commented on the common cognitive elements in RET and FRT.…”

The Structure of Depression, by Factoring Q‐data, in Relation to General Personality Source Traits

“…Originally, the choice resulted in 150 items which were reduced to 73 by a preliminary experiment on 30 clinical subjects rejecting items for ambiguity, word count, and extreme Yes-No cuts. Perhaps one-fifth of the items were salients from Comrey's psychiatric rating scale factoring (Comrey, I 957), Shapiro's interview data (Shapiro, Neufeld & Post, 1962), and other theoretical sources (Asmussen, 1957;Brengelmann & Marconi, 1958;Cameron, 1945;Eldred & Price, 1958;Frank, 1954;Hemphill, Hall & Croones, 1952;Jaeger, 1955;Klein, 1935;Rado, 1954;Shagass, 1957;Tellenbach, 1957;Wittenborn, 1955).…”