Clinical Implications of Measurements of Interaction Rates in Psychiatric Interviews

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Abstract
Measurements suited to the description and comparison of different psychiatric disorders are still in their infancy. Achievement tests for various functions such as memory, judgment, and reasoning, it is true, are widely used, and some attempts have been made through the so-called projective methods to obtain comparable pictures of the subjective state of the patient, but these are not measurements comparable to the procedures used in physiology and other departments of medicine. The psychiatric disorders have to be described under such headings as "general behavior", "stream of talk", "rapport", and "mood", which are still extremely vague in their meaning, and comparison of these aspects of the patient's behavior and experience from one day to another is usually expressed in terms of "better" or "worse".

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