American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 124
- Number 8
- February 1968
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1019–1027Previous work from the Tulane laboratories showed that a psychosis-inducing gamma globulin fraction in sera of schizophrenic patients, designated taraxein, was demonstrable by passive transfer in volunteer nonpsychotic recipients and in rhesus monkeys. In ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1019Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1028–1036Significantly more psychopathology and social stress were present in 96 drivers causing fatal accidents than in a matched control group. In the fatality group, prior accidents were significantly related to psychopathology but not to social stress. Twenty ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1028Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1037–1042Although many psychoanalysts have individually become involved in and contributed to community psychiatry programs, the American Psychoanalytic Association itself has remained aloof. This official detachment has serious implications, the author believes, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1037Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1043–1048The author defines community psychiatry as the theory and practice of psychiatry as it applies to the principle of districting—the saturation of a given area with preventive and therapeutic medical services for all the families in the area. He feels that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1043Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1049–1056There is real danger today that community mental health programs will grow up apart from and conceptually antithetical to psychodynamic thinking. The author traces the unfortunate consequences should such a separation ensue. Rather than doing away with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1049Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1057–1062Two groups of inpatients who were initially misdiagnosed are described. The pseudoschizophrenics showed little affect and had histories of exotic and sensational behavior; the initial misdiagnosis of schizophrenia appeared to be a moral censure. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1057Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1063–1069Psychiatric observations of mood, thought content, and social behavior of 12 volunteer subjects prior to, during, and following an experimental drinking situation were carried out. Contrary to commonly-held impressions concerning alcoholics, most of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1063Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1070–1075This study presents employers' evaluations, at two time intervals, of the work performance of 181 former psychiatric patients diagnosed as either schizophrenic or psychoneurotic. Compared with matched controls who had no history of psychiatric treatment, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1070Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1076–1084Sexual problems, especially problems of sexual inadequacy, persist in spite of the current presumed sexual freedom. The author relates this to certain unfortunate aspects of our culture and particularly to increasing alienation and mechanization. She ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1076Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1085–1091The authors describe the first year's experience of Overing Apartments, a halfway house in which tenants are challenged to accept a full range of responsibilities early in their stay. The outcomes of 20 men and 22 women are evaluated. Prognostic criteria ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1085Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1092–1100The Job Corps program and the current range of psychiatric consultation practice in this setting are described. A survey of 97 consulting psychiatrists was conducted; the results indicate that the range of utilization of psychiatrists by Job Corps centers ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1092Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1101–1106A study at New York Medical College revealed a fairly high correlation between performance on an objective written examination in psychiatry and clinical competence of psychiatric residents as evaluated by the faculty. The study thus indicated that the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1101Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1107–1112One hundred enuretic children participated in a long-term evaluation of imipramine hydrochloride as a treatment for enuresis. In addition, 20 of these children and their parents were chosen for an intensive social-medical and psychological evaluation. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1107Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1116–1119The author believes that the general practitioner, as well as the psychiatrist, should treat the alcoholic patient. The general practitioner's reluctance can be overcome with proper educational training in alcohol problems presented in lecture courses, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1116Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1120–1123The author describes his personal experience with acute delirium accompanying pneumococcal meningitis. He discusses several aspects of delirious thinking such as occupational delirium, geographical disorientation, and duplication and double orientation.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1120Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1124–1125Five cases are reported in which cutaneous lesions—rashes and ulcers—developed during lithium treatment of manic behavior. These symptoms appeared during the first three weeks of treatment and responded well to a reduction in lithium dosage or treatment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1124Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1126–1127The authors studied 22 stutterers being treated in group psychotherapy for 18 months. Most of the stutterers exhibited passive-dependent personality traits which prevented them from recognizing feelings and expressions of anger. The authors' treatment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1126Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1128–1132In order to investigate the prognosis and management of anorexia nervosa, the authors made a follow-up study of 36 female patients who had been hospitalized with that diagnosis. Very few of the patients died. The authors feel that the physician should not ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1128Publication date: 01 February 1968
Pages1132–1135The purpose of this study was to establish which qualities of auditory hallucinations are most sensitive to change during drug treatment and drug withdrawal. The authors tested 24 newly admitted hallucinating patients on drug treatment and 25 chronic ...
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