American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 124
- Number 9
- March 1968
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1151–1156The 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.124.9.1151Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1157–1163The 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.124.9.1157Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1164–1170Rapidly 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.124.9.1164Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1184–1189The 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.124.9.1184Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1190–1195The 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.124.9.1190Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1196–1201Convulsive 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.124.9.1196Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1202–1212There 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.124.9.1202Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1212–1219Persuasion 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.124.9.1212Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1219–1226Following 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.124.9.1219Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1227–1231The 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.124.9.1227Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1232–1237Twenty-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.124.9.1232Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1237–1244One 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.124.9.1237Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1249–1253DMPEA 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.124.9.1249Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1253–1257A 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.124.9.1253Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1257–1260Quinacrine 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.124.9.1257Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1260–1262Although 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.124.9.1260Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1262–1266The 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.124.9.1262Publication date: 01 March 1968
Pages1271-a–1271On 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, ...
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