American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 124
- Number 7
- January 1968
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages877–882Psychopharmacology is a relatively new treatment modality, and little legal precedent directly applicable to drug use in the office practice of psychotherapy exists. Because of growing concern among psychiatrists about legal risks in prescribing drugs, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.877Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages883–891In community surveys reviewed in this article, prevalence rates for depression are under one per 1,000 population for depressive psychoses and two or three times that for depressive neuroses. Depressives are regarded in clinical practice as a high-risk ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.883Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages892–899Active exchange between theory, research, and application provides a rich environment for creative advances in sociology as well as in medicine. Medical sociology—a relatively new specialty within the social sciences—promises to contribute much to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.892Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages900–909Three categories of background factors were found to predict short-term improvement (symptom reduction) in schizophrenic patients receiving either placebo or one of three phenothiazines: general predictors, which applied equally to all treatments; ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.900Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages910–916Medicare is having a tremendous impact on psychiatry and the rest of medicine. The author feels that the restrictions on psychiatric coverage in this law, rather than being a handicap, should serve as a challenge to the profession to modify existing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.910Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages917–923Various techniques have been tried in an endeavor to control deviant sexual drive. This paper presents the results obtained using a long-acting phenothiazine given intramuscularly and working on a depot basis, the theoretical advantages being a lesser ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.917Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages924–933The author describes the operations of a psychiatric emergency service in a university hospital during a six-month period. He discusses the importance of the social environment in both the development and the therapeutic resolution of a psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.924Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages934–944Day hospitalization has been cited as a means of circumventing inpatient confinement. This would imply, however, that day hospital patients are representative of inpatient admissions. Comparing Baltimore Psychiatric Day Center patients with other patient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.934Some Aspects of the Relationship of the Urban Pediatric Hospital to Community Mental Health Programs
Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages944–949The expanded role of the urban pediatric hospital in the delivery of comprehensive medical care has been accompanied by increasing referrals of patients with social and emotional problems. In the treatment of these patients the "mecca" philosophy of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.944Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages949–954The authors present their observations of adolescents hospitalized on a short-term psychiatric ward over a four-year period. Three stages of adjustment are identified in the course of hospitalization, reflecting a gradual formation and dissolution of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.949Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages955–961Three years ago a geriatric screening unit was established in San Francisco to reduce state hospital commitments of elderly psychiatric patients by utilizing alternative community resources. In the present study the authors examined one year later the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.955Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages961–968The authors are concerned with the possible liability of public and private hospitals for the acts of their mental patients. In most jurisdictions, the hospitals' duty of care is imposed by case law. There are certain hospitals controlled by a political ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.961Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages974–978A decision of the U. S. Supreme Court resulted in the movement of 969 "insane criminals" and "criminally insane" persons from, the hospitals of the New York State Department of Correction to the civil state hospitals of the Department of Mental Hygiene ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.974Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages978–982Between 1955 and 1966 the prevalence of diabetes among hospitalized psychotic women patients rose from 4.2 to 17.2 percent. The increase followed the introduction of chlorpromazine therapy in 1954. About every fourth patient who had been treated for one ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.978Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages982–986Magnesium pemoline was investigated for its possible beneficial effects upon intellective and memory functioning and clinical psychiatric status of chronic schizophrenic patients. Sixteen patients received magnesium pemoline for eight weeks in dosages ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.982Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages986–991Over a two-year period 219 physicians were studied with respect to their attitudes toward psychiatry. From the large amount of data three specifics are highlighted: 1) In this young physician population of diverse origin and medical training, the over-all ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.986Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages991–993A case of ejaculatory inhibition during masturbation in an adolescent male treated with thioridazine is reported. Noteworthy is the fact that the patient waited almost a month before revealing the symptom to his physician, unlike the cases involving ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.991Publication date: 01 January 1968
Pages1015–1016This statement was approved by the Council of the American Psychiatric Association in December 1966 upon recommendation of the Association's Committee on Ethics. The Judicial Council of the American Medical Association has agreed "that the statements ...
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