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Long-term observation of two samples of schizophrenic patients discloses that hospital discharges of such patients has doubled since 1940. Freyhan regards modern clinical management as the cause of this improvement. We cannot foretell which illnesses will be chronic on the basis of type of onset or of personality, nor can chronicity be avoided by therapeutic efforts.