American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 123
- Number 11
- May 1967
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1329–1337The introduction and widespread use of psychotropic drugs have raised many problems for the community physician. The private practitioner (whether psychiatrist or general practitioner) should be alert to problems of safety, toxicity, and side effects. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1329Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1338–1345Follow-up of a group of "symptomatic adolescents" five years after initial evaluation indicated that, for them, adolescence was but a way station in a long history of psychiatric illness that began in childhood and followed its own inexorable course. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1338Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1346–1351To investigate the influence of alcohol upon affective state, an intoxicating dose was administered intravenously to three groups—alcoholic patients, severely depressed patients, and control subjects. Using the Clyde Mood Scale to measure each subject's ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1346Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1352–1358Survivors of Nazi concentration camps who subsequently suffered serious psychiatric disorders have been denied compensation because certain psychiatric experts appointed by the German Consulate have refused to acknowledge a connection between the victims' ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1352Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1359–1360Carrying out the death penalty represents a sorry exercise on the part of society; we make little progress by convicting and executing poorly represented, neglected persons. Individual security would be improved and the crime rate reduced by a more modern ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1359Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1361–1370Today the death penalty provides the philosopher not so much with the task of debating its retention but rather with an occasion for explaining its virtual abolition. Public opposition, the position of the federal government, the accumulation of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1361Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1371–1378Psychotherapy sessions conducted jointly by psychiatric residents and their supervisors can be a valuable learning and teaching experience for both. The authors describe such a training center program, outlining areas of possible difficulty unique to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1371Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1379–1387The present study investigated which aspects of group behavior and interaction are influenced more by the particular psychotherapist and patients involved than by the type of group therapy session. Taped segments from three therapists' groups, with each ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1379Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1388–1394The concept of motivation for treatment is of little practical value, principally because motivations are inseparable from the patient's infantile conflicts and defenses. A decision concerning therapy would be much better based on the patient's needs and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1388Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1394–1401Increasing emphasis upon secondary prevention (early case-finding and treatment) has encouraged the setting up of walk-in or emergency psychiatric facilities where people in crisis can find immediate help. One promising alternative to the creation of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1394Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1402–1407The Forensic Psychiatry Clinic at Temple University was established to serve the needs of the indigent and their attorneys in both criminal and civil cases. Closed reports and "private" consultations are provided at the earliest stage of the legal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1402Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1408–1413Directed toward low-income urban groups, the neighborhood service center is designed to detect pathology as it is expressed in the concrete problems of living, related often to welfare, housing, and employment, but also to more personal, emotional life ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1408Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1413–1418When the gulf between doctor and patient is so great that either of them despairs of ever bridging it, the patient may respond more easily to an intermediate therapist—another patient. Spontaneous interactions between patients can foster therapeutic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1413Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1418–1424Inpatient treatment of disturbed children, adolescents, and adults may be enhanced and complemented when they are housed together. Some advantages include more levels of communication for the children, lessening of contagious elements in destructive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1418Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1425–1430Use of videotape recordings in conjoint marital therapy is now feasible because of the availability of inexpensive equipment. This technique allows the immediate recovery and review of a large amount of objective data concerning interactions during a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1425Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1430–1438The Home Treatment Service of Boston State Hospital seeks to provide alternatives to hospitalization for the mentally ill by means of a referral network in the community conducive to early therapeutic intervention and by drawing the family as well as the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1430Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1443–1447This report comprises three interrelated studies undertaken to investigate the age at onset of the disturbances in body image reported by some obese persons. A group of 20 preadolescent girls, although subjected to derogation of their obesity by peers and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1443Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1450–1452Data on a group of 414 patients who underwent multiple lobotomies and were followed over an average period of 12.4 years from the first operation confirm the belief that such operations are worthwhile in patients who relapse after the first lobotomy The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.11.1450Publication date: 01 May 1967
Pages1453–1455The technical difficulties and obviation factors of flurothyl treatment (ICT) are discussed. Toxic delirium problems, as well as a cardiac arrest patient who recovered, are described. It is felt that flurothyl is a new somatic treatment tool in psychiatry ...
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