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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 122
  • Number 7
  • January 1966

Article

Publication date: 01 January 1966

Pages727–737

A group of 100 male New York City addicts admitted to the USPHS Hospital at Lexington, Ky., between August 1952 and January 1953 were followed until 1965. Ninety-four percent were successfully followed for at least ten years; 75 percent of the patients ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.7.727

Publication date: 01 January 1966

Pages745–748

Physicians represented approximately two percent of the total male discharges from the USPHS Hospital in Lexington, Ky., in 1952. Most were over 40 years old. About 50 percent had only one admission to the hospital, while the remainder had from two to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.7.745

Publication date: 01 January 1966

Pages748–756

A review of legal opinions reveals conflicting attitudes toward the intoxicated civil or criminal offender. Traditionally the courts have dealt harshly with him, assuming that the intoxicated person chooses his condition and must suffer the consequences. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.7.748

Publication date: 01 January 1966

Pages757–762

A pilot and controlled study of a court program using suspended sentence and summary probation to community treatment facilities has been outlined. Preliminary results indicate a dramatic drop in drunk arrest rates. Further studies are contemplated to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.7.757

Publication date: 01 January 1966

Pages762–767

Of 72 drivers responsible for fatal traffic accidents in Washtenaw County, Michigan, 29 (40 percent) were alcoholic, 7 (10 percent) were prealcoholic and 36 (50 percent) were nonalcoholic. Hence one-half of the drivers had serious drinking problems of a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.7.762

Publication date: 01 January 1966

Pages767–773

Certain strains of mice prefer alcohol to water in preference tests whereas others avoid alcohol. This is the behavior which we are trying to explain, and we have formulated several explanatory hypotheses: 1. It was hypothesized that animals of high ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.7.767

Publication date: 01 January 1966

Pages783–789

We have studied psychiatrically 80 cases of adolescent boys who have molested children under the age of ten, and have described the syndrome and the profile of these pedophiles. We have distinguished between the aggressive and the passive child molester. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.7.783

Publication date: 01 January 1966

Pages790–797

One hundred selected (one of every 20) admissions to an acute psychiatric hospital were evaluated by means of independent psychiatric and neurologic, EEG and psychological examinations. Final diagnoses were established by means of longitudinal studies. It ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.7.790

Publication date: 01 January 1966

Pages798–805

Current literature has explored the possibilities of the use of the group approach to the treatment of state hospital patients who have been discharged to a mental health clinic for outpatient care. This paper deals with a method employed by a psychiatric ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.7.798

Publication date: 01 January 1966

Pages806–809

A combined psychiatric-psychoanalytic training program has been instituted at New York Medical College. Through this program, a resident in training may commence psychoanalytic training in the evening institute of the Department of Psychiatry at the end ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.7.806

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