Reserpine alone and as an adjunct to psychotherapy in the treatment of schizophrenia.

had no formal treatment program in progress because of the severe shortage of personnel. Up to the beginning of this experiment there was only one psychiatrist for 160 patients, and even then he had other duties to perform elsewhere. This service was one housing the chronically disturbed patients. Thus this ward provided the severest test of the drug. The fact that no formal treatment program existed provided the opportunity to measure the effectiveness of treatment per se, regard¬ less of type. The treatments chosen for in¬ vestigation were reserpine administration, group psychotherapy, a combination of these two, and administration of a placebo (sodium