American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 124
- Number 1
- July 1967
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages16–22A two-year study indicated that the more experienced the therapist is, the less he tends to use tranquilizing drugs to manage hospitalized psychotic patients. It was also observed that patients admitted during the weekend, when fewer therapists were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.16Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages23–28Operant conditioning was applied in the special circumstances of a Vietnamese mental hospital with a largely untreated and idle patient population. Results demonstrated the remarkable effectiveness of this technique for motivating patients to resume ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.23Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages29–35A study of 227 retarded children and their families revealed that emotional maladjustment more often than not accompanies retardation. The author points out, however, that disturbed behavior in the retarded is not due primarily to limited intellectual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.29Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages36–42Many hospitals are experiencing an influx of patients who have made several suicide attempts through wrist slashing. A study was undertaken to learn the possible causes of such behavior. It suggested that the wrist slashers have a common behavior pattern ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.36Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages43–51The manifestation of sociopathic personality in identical twins who are members of a dizygotic set of triplets is reported; the third triplet showed no evidence of personality disturbance. The author suggests that environmental and psychodynamic factors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.43Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages52–58The social roles of the military psychiatrist are examined with special attention to the uses and misuses of power. The ethical dilemma of loyalty divided between the individual patient and the community at large is complicated by the social impact of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.52Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages59–65Forty-six women who had therapeutic abortions for a variety of diagnostic indications were evaluated from two months to ten years after the abortion. Two-thirds of the group had a diagnosable psychiatric illness prior to the abortion. Conflicts about ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.59Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages66–70Karl Jaspers has greatly influenced the development of phenomenology, the concept of process, and existential analysis. His writings on psychopathology, largely unknown in the United States, represent the most detailed rationale of eclecticism in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.66Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages74–76A case is presented of a 49-year-old man with prolonged coma following ECT and a history of jacksonian seizures starting with a head injury at age 12. The patient's symptoms following ECT were controlled by the use of diphenylhydantoin.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.74A Community Project in Behalf of the Hospitalized Mentally Ill Patient: The Cooperative Care Project
Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages76–79The project in general disclosed the extent and diversity of unmet needs for the community care of this group of particularly difficult patients and families. The value of community services of one kind or another as represented in the project, in meeting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.76Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages80–81We have reported a case of depression associated with alpha-methyldopa treatment in which there was a history of prior mood disturbances associated with the use of other drugs which can also alter catecholamine levels. Since most antihypertensive agents ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.80Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages82–84The computer methods described in the foregoing paragraphs are intended only as brief outline of the programming techniques used by SCRIBE to handle the most common problems in punctuation and editing of the GPPQ narrative output. There are other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.82Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages84–88A patient with an hysterical personality unexpectedly encountered a sudden, relatively painless threat to life. As the patient was in psychoanalytic treatment, circumstances permitted the early collection of her fantasies and remembered experiences and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.84Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages94–96A case is reported in which the presenting symptoms appeared to be a rather bizarre perversion and severe regression but with no evidence of psychosis. The treatment was interpretive in nature and was aimed at understanding the meaning of the patient's ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.1.94Publication date: 01 July 1967
Pages96–99Two cases of hypnotic subjects who had to be "rehypnotized" to be brought out of their trances are described. Some background information regarding their cases as well as observations about hypnotic subjects are reviewed to help understand why they ...
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