American Journal of Psychiatry

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Data from the 785 interviews of married and never married respondents in a sample of the adult population of San Francisco are presented by marital status. On most of our indices of adjustment it was found that more single men are maladjusted than single ...

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

In 1371 consecutive admissions to the Department of Psychiatry of the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis over a three-year period, 35 EFA (extrafamilial adoptees) and six IFA (intrafamilial adoptees) were identified. The 35 EFA accounted for an incidence rate ...

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Today's psychiatrist should possess sufficient sociocultural flexibility in his professional abilities to work effectively with patients whose cultural class and economic or educational backgrounds differ considerably from his own. Otherwise, his ...

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Release and community stay data during an eight-year period were presented for a sample of 442 chronic schizophrenics transferred to 11 VA neuropsychiatric hospitals. These data reflected a rate of release which differed considerably between hospitals and ...

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Since the advent of psychotropic drugs a decade ago, the number of psychiatric patients hospitalized at any one time has been decreasing as the average length of stay in the hospital has become shorter, but readmission rates have markedly increased. Why ...

Publication date: 01 February 1966

All clinics provided direct services to patients (the definition would exclude any who did not), with 94 percent ranking it as the primary function; consultation was most frequently rated as second in importance, training third, and research last. Over ...

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

This investigation was designed to subject to systematic study the hypothesis that the effects of sensory isolation are due to the removal of meaningful information relevant to the solution of an internally perceived problem. Three experimental conditions ...

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Chicken livers ingested by patients who were receiving the MAO inhibitor, tranylcypromine, gave rise to six serious hypertensive episodes and four moderately severe side reactions. Biochemical analysis of samples of chicken livers ingested by patients who ...

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

Publication date: 01 February 1966

In the December issue, the Letter to the Editor titled "The Dewey Pitcher and the Gold-Headed Cane" contains an error. The second paragraph refers to an article titled "A Sixth Professor of the Gold-Headed Cane;" it should have read "A Sixth Possessor of ...

Publication date: 01 February 1966