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Supersedes LC 416. ; May 1, 1940. ; RAM:AER -- cover. ; Cover title. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Psychosis has been viewed with vastly different attitudes in different contexts. Medical professionals frequently assume that patients should have adequate insight into their abnormal experience. "Lack" of insight has been regarded as a characteristic feature of schizophrenic psychosis. However, these experiences have frequently been construed from a non-medically related perspective by the general public. We employed a case-vignette approach to study the opinion of a general public sample concerning attribution, intervention needs and con cordance with medical professionals towards psychotic experience. Ninety eight healthy Chinese volunteers were recruited. Results showed that public opinion only agreed partly with the conventional medical model. Although most subjects agreed that the experience described in the case-vignette was psychological, they did not relate this to psychiatric treatment. Subjects having past contact with psychiatric patients showed a higher degree of agreement with the medical perspective than subjects without past contact. Potential implications of our results on management and health education are discussed.

Applying sets of techniques aimed at working to one's advantage all of the manipulatable aspects of the mail questionnaire technique of data collection is seldom done. However, by doing so high response rates can be obtained from random samples of the general public. 75% response rates were obtained from 2 statewide samples of 4,500 Wash state residents whose names had been drawn randomly from telephone books. The response to the 10-page questionnaire requiring from 109 to 150 individual answers, was attributed to manipulation of questionnaire format, use of intensive follow-up procedures, anonymity considerations, formulation of appeals following established principles, & use of personalization techniques on a mass scale. Use of postage stamps vs postage meters for mail outs made no diff in returns. While the individual importance of each technique could not be established, follow-ups were found to be indispensable. AA.

This paper focuses on the public diplomacy (PD) practices of the EU that is confronted with two distinct challenges. First, the EU aims to reform its external action in order to become a global power and leader in the changing multipolar world. Second, it purports to fight the ongoing economic crisis that not only weakens the actual global capabilities of the EU, but damages its international image and reputation as a power and a leader. The paper assumes the potential of EU PD tools in meeting these challenges and tests this assumption in one case study of international public opinion on the EU in its immediate neighbourhood (Ukraine). Importantly, the study confronts an additional challenge: EU PD is described in the relevant literature to be a disjointed, under-resourced and overlooked policy area.