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The article presents the seven-month study of token economy procedures with chronic schizophrenic patients in an English psychiatric hospital. The study aimed to train the staff involved in token economy methods and to develop an appropriate set of assessment and therapeutic procedures. Some attempt was made to isolate factors other than token reinforcement in line with the criticism of their studies, although, according to the authors, the present study should be construed primarily as a demonstration and not as a controlled experiment. Despite, there are a few disturbing problems which certainly demand a more through investigation, the study showed encouraging results in running a token economy .