AbstractTwo hundred patients who chose to continue in treatment at a community mental health center were compared with 200 patients who chose to discontinue treatment after a limited number of visits. Cross‐tabulations and loglinear analysis were used to assess group differences on 11 demographic and 8 clinical variables. Cross‐tabulations provided evidence of significant group differences on 10 variables, and loglinear analysis did so for 9 variables. As a group, patients who chose not to continue in treatment tended to be younger and less dysfunctional and had less prior mental health treatm