A narrative account of contacts with two study subjects

The following document includes an account of the visits to Oranim (and some related materials) of two of the subjects of this investigation. A. (No. 19) is a kibbutz-index case whose father was diagnosed as schizophrenic; H. (No. 81) was a town-index case whose mother had that diagnosis. Each of these parents had had one period of hospitalization. In both cases the observations extend over a period of 7-8 years, and attest to the warm, close contact between the subjects and the staff of the study. The rapport built up between subjects and staff is unusual, and it facilitated the high followup rates: 93 of the original cohort were seen in the 1973 followup and 90 of the surviving 99 in the 1981 followup. The observations are presented virtually unedited so as to convey the richness of the interaction and the special contact between Mrs. Loni Bonwitt, the project secretary, and the subjects. In the 1981 followup, A. (No. 19), the kibbutz-index case, received a DSM-III diagnosis of neurotic depression; H. (No. 81), the town-index case, received no diagnosis.