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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 124
  • Number 9
  • March 1968

Article

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1151–1156

The rapid appearance of new treatment techniques, public demand for psychiatric expertise in increasingly broader areas of social and community concern, and the current information explosion in all fields have contributed to recent interest in programs of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1151

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1157–1163

The use of television videotaping and replay in a psychiatric residency program, as described here, offers unique learning opportunities for both teacher and student in the supervision of psychotherapy. The camera may be regarded as a participant recorder,...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1157

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1164–1170

Rapidly expanding interest in the many facets of mental retardation has not, until recently, included the varied problems posed by mentally retarded offenders. The authors report on the results of a nationwide survey to determine the extent of retardation ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1164

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1184–1189

The totality of urban life is the only rational focus for concern with mental illness. No longer can we be concerned solely with treatment institutions; our problem now embraces all of society and we must examine every aspect of it to determine what is ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1184

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1190–1195

The high risk of postoperative psychotic reaction occurring in patients who have undergone open-heart surgery has been attributed to several factors. The authors studied two of these—preoperative psychological state of the patient and environment in the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1190

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1196–1201

Convulsive therapy is widely used in the treatment of depressive states; narcostimulation is a modified convulsive therapy which alternately produces narcosis and stimulation of the central nervous system. The authors used this method with 60 depressive ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1196

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1202–1212

There is a strong positive relationship between a patient's perception of psychotherapy and its ultimate success. Some patients who appear to lack motivation for treatment may be capable of profiting from psychotherapy if they are taught what to expect— ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1202

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1212–1219

Persuasion plays an important role in promoting therapeutic change. But the claim that it is the sole or primary agent is rejected on methodological grounds because it fails to account for individual differences in persuasibility and for the process of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1212

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1219–1226

Following a critical evaluation of the treatment philosophy and services provided at the psychiatric outpatient clinic of a university hospital, a reorganization was undertaken, shifting the emphasis from reconstructive to brief psychotherapy. The results ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1219

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1227–1231

The provision of adequate psychotherapeutic help to all who can benefit from it is perhaps a major problem in all civilized countries. The author reports on a system for the treatment of the neuroses established in Prague as part of the Czechoslovak ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1227

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1232–1237

Twenty-five psychiatric residents were rated on their ability as psychotherapists by ten supervisors with various theoretical orientations. The high rate of agreement among the supervisors' assessments of competency suggests that there may be "good ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1232

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1237–1244

One of the major obstacles in the development of mental health services in large areas of the non-Western world is the difficulty in making culture- and language-specific adaptations of Western scientific approaches. Individual psychotherapy is a powerful ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1237

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1249–1253

DMPEA was injected into test rats to determine the pathways of its metabolism and to identify the resultant metabolites and their effects. The substance was absorbed into the liver, spleen, lungs, heart, and brain (minute amounts), and the course of its ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1249

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1253–1257

A 30-year-old man experienced episodes of acute recurrent pancreatitis; documented episodes were accompanied by a specific psychologic conflict and its specific affects of guilt, anger, and feelings of rejection. The author concludes that the pancreatitis ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1253

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1257–1260

Quinacrine and chloroquine are being used increasingly in the United States in the treatment of malaria and as an anti-inflammatory agent. In the two cases reported here, quinacrine was administered within the normal therapeutic range and toxic psychoses ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1257

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1260–1262

Although the first and second psychiatric revolutions are unequivocally credited to Pinel and Freud respectively, the true designation of the third revolution in psychiatry is still in question. This author presents his argument for awarding the title to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1260

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1262–1266

The outward manifestations of gender role may conceal an aberration of gender identity in intersexed patients. The authors present the case of a woman with pseudohermaphroditism whose apparent femininity concealed an ambiguous gender identity. The mother'...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1262

Publication date: 01 March 1968

Pages1271-a–1271

On page 1128 of the February issue, the identifying footnote to the article "Anorexia Nervosa: A Study in Prognosis and Management," by Charles H. Browning, M.D., and Sheldon I. Miller, M.D., stated that Dr. Miller's address is 10940 Euclid Avenue, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1271-a

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