American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 124
- Number 5
- November 1967
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages585–594The author casts doubt on three well-accepted myths: that social drinking is a definable entity, that it is not harmful, and that it is helpful. While he notes that there is no definitive proof that social drinking is either harmful or helpful, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.585Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages595–599Short-term results with the use of automated nursing notes at the Institute of Living indicate that there are significant gains in the day-to-day care of patients. Longterm benefits can be anticipated from the comparison and evaluation of data over time ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.595Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages600–608A fairly consistent relationship has been observed between the effects of drugs on norepinephrine metabolism in animals and the known effects of these drugs on mood in man. Data are presented suggesting that stimulants or antidepressants may increase ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.600Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages609–615The prevalence of psychiatric disorders in the five general practices of an island community over a three-month period is reported. While the usual higher female prevalence rate was found, a significant finding was an extremely high rate in women in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.609Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages616–622Transcultural psychiatry may be viewed as the study of behavior reflecting the shared vicissitudes of culture and the similar tendencies that exist within all cultures. Emphasizing the similarities in human behavior under various cultural settings, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.616Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages623–629The development of depression in patients involved in renal transplantation at the University of Michigan Medical Center demonstrated the need for presurgical and postsurgical psychotherapy. It was found that, among recipients, depression precipitated by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.623Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages630–636A previous study of 594 consecutive admissions to an outpatient clinic indicated that patients were being treated differently depending upon factors of race. The followup reported here showed that therapists with low ethnocentricity (as measured by the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.630Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages637–641In this study, the distance between the state hospital and the community was found to be a factor influencing the use of the hospital. As this distance increased the admission rate decreased, the proportion of court commitments increased, and the degree ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.637Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages642–650Alienation, viewed as a sense of detachment from the values of one's society, family, and even from one's own feelings, is fostered among susceptible college students by the exclusiveness of the university campus, isolated as it is from the adult world. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.642Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages651–658Harvard undergraduates who had consulted a psychiatrist before dropping out of college and had been diagnosed as having a specific psychiatric disorder were defined as "psychiatric dropouts." in comparing these students with all other dropouts, the author ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.651Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages658–661A cooperative venture for the provision of comprehensive mental health care to students and faculty of the many small colleges in the Boston community is described. In addition to offering the major advantages of a single-college mental health unit, this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.658Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages662–671This ten-year survey of the use of student mental health services offered by the University of North Carolina suggests that increased usage over time has been due to greater availability of staff and a broadening of services offered rather than to an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.662Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages671–674Astasia-abasia, an uncommon and severe conversion reaction, was seen in two first-year West Point cadets. The author interprets the appearance of this disturbance as an extreme, primitive defense against the acute stresses experienced by a new cadet at ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.671Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages674–677Case reports of panic, gross confusion, depersonalization, depression, and paranoia following the use of marihuana in a student population are presented. These reports of adverse reaction are interpreted in the light of the expected reaction to the drug, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.674Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages678–679The recent practice of smoking dried banana scrapings to achieve a "psychedelic experience" led the authors to investigate the hallucinogenic properties of bananadine, or "mellow yellow." They conclude that the "active ingredient" in bananadine is the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.678Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages682–687A battery of objective psychological tests was administered to 25 children with familial dysautonomia and to ten unaffected siblings. Although the children with dysautonomia were able to achieve, on the average, an intelligence quotient within the low ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.682Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages687–692Much has been written on sexuality in female hysterics. No author seems to have established a direct relationship between frigidity and hysteria. The literature shows confusion in the definition of hysterical personality. Many hysterics have a strong ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.687Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages699–702Schizophrenic patients followed longitudinally from an acute psychotic phase to a remission were rated as more depressed during the period following improvement of schizophrenic symptoms than during the hospital course as a whole. The period following ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.699Publication date: 01 November 1967
Pages702–705Some published results from the European literature regarding the therapeutic and untoward effects of clopenthixol therapy were replicated. Therapeutic response was demonstrated at a daily dosage of 50 mg. An initial drowsiness was noted within a few days ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.5.702Publication date: 01 November 1967
Page728On page 279 of the August issue the publisher of the book Psychotherapy and Existentialism, by Viktor E. Frankl, was incorrectly given. The publisher is Washington Square Press, not Washington University Press.
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