American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 125
- Number 1
- July 1968
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1968
Pages25–30The psychiatric experience of a medical officer on two submerged Polaris submarine patrols, each lasting two months, is presented. One psychiatric emergency—an acute paranoid schizophrenic reaction—was managed, and some minor anxiety reactions and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.1.25Publication date: 01 July 1968
Pages31–41Drug therapy for alcoholism covers three major areas: chronic alcoholism, acute alcohal intoxication, and the withdrawal syndrome. No drug therapy has yet been proven of significant value in long-term treatment; however, preliminary studies are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.1.31Publication date: 01 July 1968
Pages60–68Differences in opinion in regard to the effectiveness of antidepressant drugs are due partly to a lack of knowledge of how they work. The author and his colleagues studied 235 patients being treated with various antidepressants and on the basis of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.1.60Publication date: 01 July 1968
Pages69–74Adolescent girls who attempt suicide are often victims of chaotic, disrupted families, condemnation, and isolation. Rejection by a boyfriend, repeating the initial rejection by the family, often precedes the suicide attempt. A treatment outline involving ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.1.69Publication date: 01 July 1968
Pages75–81Interviews and field observations in seven secondary schools revealed patterned responses to the introduction of psychiatric services in the schools. Three types of response appear to be related to teachers' conceptions of their professional role; they ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.1.75Publication date: 01 July 1968
Pages82–88The four community mental health centers now providing comprehensive services in southern Saskatchewan have contributed to a dramatic decline in the patient population of the state hospital at Weyburn, and there are strong indications that the hospital ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.1.82Publication date: 01 July 1968
Pages89–95It has been observed that the symptomatology considered to be characteristic of depression in Western cultures is rarely seen among tribal Africans. The two cases discussed here involve young women of tribal background who showed initial depressive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.1.89Publication date: 01 July 1968
Pages99–102One hundred patients in a tumor clinic were asked if they had experienced forewarnings of their illness. Thirteen responded positively. Two said they had been "cursed," four had premonitions, and seven had been told by others they would develop this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.1.99Publication date: 01 July 1968
Pages103–109The author's experience with his own son and with other seriously disturbed children has led him to the observation that there are two camps in child psychiatry: the psychogenic-nonorganic group and the psychologicorganic group. He feels that the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.1.103Publication date: 01 July 1968
Pages109–112The authors studied 16 pairs of monozygotic twins—12 pairs of twins discordant for schizophrenia and four pairs of nonschizophrenic control twins—and their parents to determine the relationship between serum macroglobulin level and schizophrenia. They ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.1.109Publication date: 01 July 1968
Pages112–113EEG, EKG, respiratory rate, and galvanic skin response were recorded from a normal 23-year-old male subject under photic and auditory stimulation during a hypnotic session and a control nonhypnotic period. No appreciable differences in responses between ...
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