American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 124
- Number 12
- June 1968
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1619–1629The new diagnostic nomenclature, which will become official on July 1, represents a significant advance toward the use of a standard international classification system to facilitate the exchange of ideas among psychiatrists of all countries. The ways in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1619Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1630–1639In reviewing some contemporary issues in psychiatric theory, the author concludes that the mind-body split remains as an unsolved problem and a focus of discomfort for theoreticians. He feels that while many concepts of classic and neo-Freudian ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1630Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1640–1644Measurements of rheumatoid factor were done on the sera of 86 patients consecutively admitted to an acute psychiatric service. Sixty-three percent of those with endogenous depressions and 35 percent of those with schizophrenia had positive titers. When ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1640Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1645–1652The relative merits of psychotherapy alone and psychotherapy in conjunction with phenothiazine therapy were investigated in the treatment of 20 chronic schizophrenic patients. Psychotherapy alone produced no demonstrable change over a two-year period in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1645Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1653–1658The authors describe six persons who were raised as members of their assigned sex but who felt that they belonged to the opposite sex. At puberty all developed some sort of cross-sex change, in effect confirming their earliest gender wishes. A possible ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1653Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1659–1663Views about alcohol abuse as a moral problem or as a specific diagnostic entity contribute little to the development of realistic preventive techniques. It may be more helpful, the author suggests, to consider the abuse of alcohol as one of many possible ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1659Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1663–1668Numerous discrepancies are found today between the medically defined goals of general hospitals and the social processes which shape the experiences of hospital patients. These are traced to conflicts between the goals of administrative efficiency and of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1663Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1668–1673Emergency treatment services in the general hospitals of urban centers have grown spectacularly in recent years, reflecting in effect a medical care vacuum for the slum poor. The medical and psychiatric needs of this population are known to be great, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1668Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1674–1679New patterns of treatment have been developed at Massachusetts General Hospital for alcoholics and other individuals often regarded as "unmotivated" and "unreachable" by traditional techniques. The crisis which brings the patient to the treatment facility ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1674Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1679–1686Existing treatment resources for the alcoholic patient are woefully inadequate, although there are a few outposts of good treatment. A round-the-clock resources are an exceptional and rare service. A description of some of the existing models of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1679Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1686–1691A training program for research in alcohol problems, sponsored by the Massachusetts division of alcoholism with the cooperation of universities and field settings in the Boston area, is described. Evaluative data collected in a survey of former student ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1686Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1692–1696In less than a year the number of suicide prevention facilities in the United States increased from 47 to 74. A questionnaire survey of 60 of the centers reveals data on the auspices of the centers, the nature of their programs, the costs and volume of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1692Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1702–1705Treatment with lithium carbonate has stabilized a group of patients with long-standing manic-depressive illness. These are patients who have shown large total body water and weight changes and serum sodium changes during the different phases of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1702Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1706–1709Weekly sessions with the chief resident in child and adolescent psychiatry provided direct communication between medical and paramedical staff in an adolescent psychiatric unit organized within the adult psychiatric ward of a general hospital. These ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1706Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1709–1711The increasingly numerous psychotherapy systems may best be ordered by use of a spectrum concept which arrays the therapies in accordance with the relative magnitudes with which they possess common elements. A prototype model is presented using the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1709Publication date: 01 June 1968
Pages1712–1714The much-attested reluctance of clinicians to join in psychotherapy research was tested by presenting a clinically optimal proposal to 100 of the best qualified therapists in Philadelphia. Extensive interview follow-ups demonstrated a resistance so ...
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