DISCUSSION OF THE PAPER BY SHUGART AND LOOMIS - HUGH MULLAN

Abstract

Doctors Shugart and Loomis of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have described a psychodramatic group method for changing the personality structures of the parents of autistic and schizophrenic children. The authors in setting up their program were well aware that a didactic lecture classroom approach would not be helpful. But the response of the parents to the therapeutic idea was that it would be an intellectual venture. ( All patients when they come to us conceive of therapy as an intellectual happening).