American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 122
- Number 6
- December 1965
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1965
Pages601–611A substantial number of outpatients can be helped by brief interpretive psychotherapy based on the application of psychoanalytic understanding. These patients are suffering acute reactions or recent exacerbations of chronic problems. The therapist uses ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.6.601Publication date: 01 December 1965
Pages612–616A questionnaire study on the teaching of forensic psychiatry in law schools, medical schools and psychiatric residency programs in the United States is reported. Data obtained from 81 percent of the approved law schools and 86 percent of the university ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.6.612Publication date: 01 December 1965
Pages616–623Competency to stand trial is an extremely complex issue, and practice has required that the psychiatrist play a major role in its determination. Several points should be emphasized: 1. Because the law has provided only vague criteria, incompetency to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.6.616Publication date: 01 December 1965
Pages623–631Although large numbers of criminal defendants are being sent to Massachusetts hospitals for pre-trial observation by the courts, few are indefinitely committed in a criminal status. This paper has reported procedures and data from one Massachusetts state ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.6.623Publication date: 01 December 1965
Pages638–645As more agencies and organizations have become aware of psychiatric insights, they have requested information from psychiatrists about patients who have made application for special positions or situations with them. The Peace Corps is one agency which ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.6.638Publication date: 01 December 1965
Pages655–658A video tape recording of a diagnostic interview was presented for the first time in a court of law during a mental incompetency proceeding. The evidence was accepted by the court, thus establishing legal precedent. Possible objections to the use of this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.6.655Publication date: 01 December 1965
Pages659–668This report is a clinical study of 23 patients undergoing open heart surgery and how some responded to it. It is evident that these patients reacted to the operation as presenting not merely a symbolic but realistic threat to life. The presence of anxiety ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.6.659Publication date: 01 December 1965
Pages669–672Petit mal is an apparently autonomous clinical entity which in fact has subtle and complex relations to other forms of epilepsy, in particular grand mal and psychomotor attacks. The EEG is of value in elucidating these relationships in rare but ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.6.669Publication date: 01 December 1965
Pages673–6781. The relationship or possible lack of relationship between infant feeding method and certain adolescent characteristics is discussed. Previous emphasis on a sucking-feeding experience as a possible vital factor in early and subsequent personality ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.6.673Publication date: 01 December 1965
Pages679–686This study described a group of patients who, with few exceptions, were hospitalized after attempting to see the President at his official residence, the White House. In 1943, Dr. Jay L. Hoffman reported his survey of psychotic visitors to government ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.6.679Publication date: 01 December 1965
Pages698–701In a comparative study, 40 outpatients, each having a depressive syndrome as the principal clinical feature, were treated with either desipramine or imipramine. Fourteen patients on each drug completed the study. The efficacy of both drugs as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.6.698Publication date: 01 December 1965
Pages702–703In the treatment of 38 emotionally disturbed children and adolescents, one-fifth had Marked Improvement, over half had Moderate Improvement, and one-fifth had Unsatisfactory Improvement. Side effect of slight sleepiness or dizziness occurred in 24%. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.6.702Publication date: 01 December 1965
Pages714-a–714On Page 357 of the September issue, The Family and the Law by Joseph Goldstein and Jay Katz was listed as costing $7.50 and containing 229 pages. The book contains 1,229 pages and its price is $17.50.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.6.714-aPublication date: 01 December 1965
Pages714-b–714In the October issue, page 438, the article "Alcoholism, Parole Observations and Criminal Recidivism: A Study of 116 Parolees" contains an error which obscures the meaning. In the left-hand column, the fifth line from the bottom reads "specific check-list ...
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