Interestingly, of the 12 admissions, 11 were diagnosed as schizophrenic
and one, with the identical symptomatology, as manic-depressive psychosis.
This diagnosis has a more favorable prognosis, and it was given by the only
private hospital in our sample. On the relations between social class and
psychiatric diagnosis, see A. deB. Hollingshead and F. C. Redlich, Social
Class and Mental Illness: A Community Study (Wiley, New York, 1958).