From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 16, 1989:

Some of the world’s leading experts on schizophrenia were attending a four-day conference in Lawrence this week. Rick Snyder, director of the clinical psychology program at Kansas University, credited Rue Cromwell, KU’s M. Erik Wright distinguished professor of clinical psychology, with helping attract international experts in the field to the second Kansas Series in Clinical Psychology. An audience including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and families of people with schizophrenia had been attending presentations and poster sessions in the Lawrence Holidome. The mood of the conference was one of optimism that discoveries of the causes and cures for schizophrenia were on the horizon. “It is positive, but not in the sense that we are expecting the big breakthrough and that the problem of schizophrenia to be wrapped up in 1989,” Cromwell noted. “But it is positive in the sense that there are a lot of breakthroughs in technology to understanding more completely the role of the brain in the problem of schizophrenia.”