American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 124
- Number 10
- April 1968
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1343–1350Exploration of social systems and cultures and their impact on individuals is an interdisciplinary endeavor; psychiatry is only one of many disciplines that have made important contributions. Social scientists and dynamic psychiatrists can learn from each ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1343Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1351–1358The stress of chronic hemodialysis may arouse emotional conflicts in the patient that lead him into open rebellion against the medical regimen upon which his life depends. The author stresses the importance of psychiatric aspects of the selection process ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1351Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1375–1384Correlation of the emotional state with the motor and biochemical activity of an isolated segment of ileum in a human subject was observed. Motor activity was increased with arousal and decreased in slates of withdrawal. Both the emotional slate and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1375Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1385–1392An examination of the dreams of depressed patients revealed that there are measurable changes in dream content which accompany imipramine treatment and clinical improvement. The findings are consistent with a view of the intrapsychic condition in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1385Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1393–1400To study the life adjustment of victims of Nazi persecution and its relationship to their past experiences and psychiatric problems, the authors interviewed and reviewed the case records of 60 persecution victims who had sought or been referred for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1393Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1401–1407Three outpatient treatment patterns involving the use of psychoactive drugs for children are described. In discussing each treatment mode, the author stresses the setting, in which at least three persons interact—the child, a parent, and the physician. He ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1401Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1407–1414Although the public schools have been assigned, by law and circumstance, the task of educating and caring for most of the community's disturbed children, they have been granted no special facilities or funds for this mission and their teachers have not ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1407Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1415–1423Previous studies have demonstrated that severity of language impairment at five years of age is a critical determinant of long-term outcome for young schizophrenic children. Degrees of language impairment were therefore used as the major criteria for this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1415Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1424–1432Although it is only the culmination of a more traumatic emotional upheaval in the family, the legal event of parental divorce presents acute problems for the very young child since it involves an abrupt change in his daily life. During the immediate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1424Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1432–1439Ten battered children and their families were followed by the authors over a two-year period. Medical, legal, and social work handling of each case was evaluated. It was found that confusion, delays, poorly coordinated efforts, and failure by agencies and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1432Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1440–1445Three groups of clinic children, separated by computer clustering of their symptoms, are described by the author. The overanxious children are likely to have an anxious infantilizing mother. The critical, depreciative, punitive, inconsistent mother or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1440Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1452–1456The authors discuss the possibility that lithium is effective not only against manic states, where it is therapeutically active, but against recurrent depressions, where it acts prophylactically. If it indeed acts against both the polar manifestations of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1452Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1456–1458Mother's Day, conceived by Anna Jarvis to honor unselfish mothers, has become a profitable business venture. Encouraged by massive advertising, mothers expect compensation ranging from cards to expensive jewelry and automobiles. For the emotionally ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1456Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1459–1463A brief review of Jung's approach to dreams is presented. The author reviews four investigations of REM research that relate to analytical psychology: control of sleep by a dual mechanism; selective REM deprivation; effects of drugs on the time of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1459Publication date: 01 April 1968
Pages1463–1466The author compares the findings of a state hospital study of 46 alcoholic women of low socioeconomic status with results of several other studies of alcoholic women from different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. In general, similar psychological ...
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