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Visual Interaction in Psychiatric Patients: A Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. R. Rutter
D. R. Rutter*
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, The Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX
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During the last decade, social psychologists and ethologists have become increasingly interested in the non-verbal elements of social interaction, as recent reviews testify (Argyle, 1969; Vine, 1970; Hinde, 1972). Research into facial expression, visual interaction, posture, gesture, non-verbal aspects of speech, etc., has considerable clinical implications, but carefully conducted investigations of non-verbal social interaction in psychiatric patients have been rare (Grant, 1972). The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence concerned with one aspect of social behaviour in psychiatric patients, namely visual interaction, in an attempt to summarize the current state of knowledge and to suggest ways in which research in this area might develop.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 123 , Issue 573 , August 1973 , pp. 193 - 202
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973

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A synopsis of this paper was published in the November 1972 Journal.

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