RT Journal
A1 Ruesch J
T1 THe assessment of social disability
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1969
FD December 1
VO 21
IS 6
SP 655
OP 664
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740240015003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740240015003
AB TWO developments have significantly altered the assessment of deviant behavior: the introduction of computers and the emphasis on social rather than psychological functioning. The computer has become indispensable for the modern scientist. He relies on it for medical literature analysis and retrieval,1 for the establishment of electronic data banks for use in clinical medicine, for computer-based recordings of physician's findings and comments,2 and for self-administered screening systems for newly admitted patients.3,4 In the narrower field of psychiatry, there exist computer-based methods for the initial psychiatric interview,5 recording systems for all psychiatric data,6 and programs for arriving at differential diagnosis.7,8 An attempt to simulate the verbal behavior of physician and patient led to the substitution of computers for living persons.9 Man-machine interaction thus can be expected in the future to play a greater role in the