Sherman Eisenthal
Biographic Data
| ID | 2349187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sherman Eisenthal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sherman |
| FAMILY NAME | Eisenthal |
| SIGNATURE | EISENTHAL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts General Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Medical Residents Evaluate Their Medical School Training in Psychosocial Care
A questionnaire was sent to all 77 general medical residents at one teaching hospital (18 primary care and 59 the traditional program), to investigate retrospectively their psychosocial training in medical school. 62 complete surveys (81%) were returned. The training was rated good by 62% of the residents and important for psychosocial practice by 45%. In ambulatory settings, supervisors were rated as supporting the doctor-patient relationship (7…
Medical Residents Evaluate Their Medical School Training in Psychosocial Care
Medication Decisions and the Risk of Tardive Dyskinesia
A random sample of one-third or 338 of the psychiatrists from the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society were surveyed. 48% or 162 completed a questionnaire composed of 10 vignettes, all describing the initial contact with an adult male schizophrenic outpatient who had been receiving chlorpromazine treatment and who showed no signs of tardive dyskinesia. The vignettes depicted varying durations of treatment, symptoms and courses of illness during prio…
Relationship of Patients' Pain Reports to Their Requests in Two Medical Settings
Do patients' uncertainties about what their pain sensations mean influence their reports of pain? To study this question, patients' pain reports were examined within two hospital-based medical practices, a walk-in unit and a general medical practice, practices to which patients bring different uncertainties about their diagnosis and treatment. Patients' requests for medical help are a measure of such uncertainties. Within each practice requests o…
Affective Aspects of Clinical Reasoning
Physicians' expectations of patients' behavior are de facto aspects of clinical reasoning. Yet, for the most part, these aspects are not included in the modern paradigm of clinical decision making, which presumes that physicians should decide only on a normative probabilistic logic. If diagnostic cues are equivocal, physicians are more likely to be affected by the doctor-patient encounter from which they derive their expectations about patients' …
Ethnicity in the reported pain, emotional distress and requests of medical outpatients
Perception of Requests in Psychotherapy
Patients' stated requests for 16 types of interventions are compared with therapists' perceptions of the patients' manifest and latent requests for these interventions. Significantly, therapists' accuracy in assessing requests sharply decreases in patients seen for more than 6 months. Therapists' ratings of the questionnaire indieate that therapists believe patients have a strong, latent wish to depend on a nurturing therapist. The study raises q…
Adhering to medical regimens
Expression of Patients' Requests in the Initial Interview
The expressions of requests of 120 patients who came to the Walk-In Psychiatric Clinic of a general hospital were examined to determine whether patients verbalized specific requests during the intake interview. As 63% of the patients verbalized a specific request, 37% emitted and 27% elicited ones, we concluded that many patients could have been more specific but felt restrained by their role. To evaluate the effect of the patients' attitudes and…
Specificity of Patients' Requests in the Initial Interview
The concept of the patient's request is described in detail in relation to a negotiated approach to conduct an initial interview in a walk-in clinic and in relation to other related concepts such as patient's goals. The verbalization of specific requests of 363 patients to the psychiatric walk-in clinic of a general hospital was investigated, using a structured pre-intake interview. Although a majority of the patients (69.5%) verbalized a specifi…
Disposition decisions in a walk-in clinic
The success of a walk-in clinic in providing care without regard to social and diagnostic factors is measured in a study of 391 patients. Results indicate that acceptance or nonacceptance into the clinic system were unrelated to social class or diagnosis, although these factors did influence referrals to specific clinic resources
Evaluation of priorities in a community mental health center
Evaluation of a community mental health role using a structured Q sort
Psychological factors associated with drug and alcohol usage among Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees
Attribution of Mental Illness in Relation to Sex of Respondent and Sex of Rated Stimulus Person
108 undergraduates rated the degree of mental illness of 10 case descriptions on a 5-point scale. Two forms were used, matched for the 10 case problems but varied for case sex. Analysis of variance yielded significant main effects for sex of the respondent and case sex. Male respondents attributed more mental illness than female respondents to the cases. The mean rating of case sex for male items was significantly higher than female items. Howeve…
Variation in the Form and Administration of Raven's Progressive Matrices Scale in a Neuropsychiatric Population
Suicide and Aggression
Suicide-attempt, suicide-ideation, and non-suicidal control groups of VA neuro-psychiatric patients were divided into psychotic and neurotic subgroups ( ns = 15). Ss viewed two classes of slides, a series of death scenes and one of unpleasant scenes. Each series contained both aggressive and non-aggressive content. Analyses of this 3 × 2 × 2 factorial design, with repeated measures, were based on measures of viewing time, rated tension, and rated…
Suicide and Aggression
Suicide-attempt, suicide-ideation, and non-suicidal control groups of VA neuro-psychiatric patients were divided into psychotic and neurotic subgroups ( ns = 15). Ss viewed two classes of slides, a series of death scenes and one of unpleasant scenes. Each series contained both aggressive and non-aggressive content. Analyses of this 3 × 2 × 2 factorial design, with repeated measures, were based on measures of viewing time, rated tension, and rated…
Variation in the Form and Administration of Raven's Progressive Matrices Scale in a Neuropsychiatric Population
Attribution of Mental Illness in Relation to Sex of Respondent and Sex of Rated Stimulus Person
108 undergraduates rated the degree of mental illness of 10 case descriptions on a 5-point scale. Two forms were used, matched for the 10 case problems but varied for case sex. Analysis of variance yielded significant main effects for sex of the respondent and case sex. Male respondents attributed more mental illness than female respondents to the cases. The mean rating of case sex for male items was significantly higher than female items. Howeve…
Psychological factors associated with drug and alcohol usage among Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees
Evaluation of priorities in a community mental health center
Evaluation of a community mental health role using a structured Q sort
Specificity of Patients' Requests in the Initial Interview
The concept of the patient's request is described in detail in relation to a negotiated approach to conduct an initial interview in a walk-in clinic and in relation to other related concepts such as patient's goals. The verbalization of specific requests of 363 patients to the psychiatric walk-in clinic of a general hospital was investigated, using a structured pre-intake interview. Although a majority of the patients (69.5%) verbalized a specifi…
Disposition decisions in a walk-in clinic
The success of a walk-in clinic in providing care without regard to social and diagnostic factors is measured in a study of 391 patients. Results indicate that acceptance or nonacceptance into the clinic system were unrelated to social class or diagnosis, although these factors did influence referrals to specific clinic resources
Expression of Patients' Requests in the Initial Interview
The expressions of requests of 120 patients who came to the Walk-In Psychiatric Clinic of a general hospital were examined to determine whether patients verbalized specific requests during the intake interview. As 63% of the patients verbalized a specific request, 37% emitted and 27% elicited ones, we concluded that many patients could have been more specific but felt restrained by their role. To evaluate the effect of the patients' attitudes and…
Adhering to medical regimens
Perception of Requests in Psychotherapy
Patients' stated requests for 16 types of interventions are compared with therapists' perceptions of the patients' manifest and latent requests for these interventions. Significantly, therapists' accuracy in assessing requests sharply decreases in patients seen for more than 6 months. Therapists' ratings of the questionnaire indieate that therapists believe patients have a strong, latent wish to depend on a nurturing therapist. The study raises q…
Affective Aspects of Clinical Reasoning
Physicians' expectations of patients' behavior are de facto aspects of clinical reasoning. Yet, for the most part, these aspects are not included in the modern paradigm of clinical decision making, which presumes that physicians should decide only on a normative probabilistic logic. If diagnostic cues are equivocal, physicians are more likely to be affected by the doctor-patient encounter from which they derive their expectations about patients' …
Ethnicity in the reported pain, emotional distress and requests of medical outpatients
Medication Decisions and the Risk of Tardive Dyskinesia
A random sample of one-third or 338 of the psychiatrists from the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society were surveyed. 48% or 162 completed a questionnaire composed of 10 vignettes, all describing the initial contact with an adult male schizophrenic outpatient who had been receiving chlorpromazine treatment and who showed no signs of tardive dyskinesia. The vignettes depicted varying durations of treatment, symptoms and courses of illness during prio…
Relationship of Patients' Pain Reports to Their Requests in Two Medical Settings
Do patients' uncertainties about what their pain sensations mean influence their reports of pain? To study this question, patients' pain reports were examined within two hospital-based medical practices, a walk-in unit and a general medical practice, practices to which patients bring different uncertainties about their diagnosis and treatment. Patients' requests for medical help are a measure of such uncertainties. Within each practice requests o…
Medical Residents Evaluate Their Medical School Training in Psychosocial Care
A questionnaire was sent to all 77 general medical residents at one teaching hospital (18 primary care and 59 the traditional program), to investigate retrospectively their psychosocial training in medical school. 62 complete surveys (81%) were returned. The training was rated good by 62% of the residents and important for psychosocial practice by 45%. In ambulatory settings, supervisors were rated as supporting the doctor-patient relationship (7…
Medical Residents Evaluate Their Medical School Training in Psychosocial Care
Psychology (17 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Family medicine (4 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Mental health (4 works)