American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 125
- Number 10
- April 1969
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1333–1342Extensive information collected on 40 Physicians who had been hospitalized for the treatment of a psychiatric disorder revealed that more than half of these doctors were ultimately able to return to active professional lives, despite the generally poor ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1333Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1343–1347Psychiatrists are uneasy in contributing psychiatric knowledge under the restrictions of legal procedures. The author reviews the bases for this discomfort. One objection is the use of stratagems to attack the credibility of expert witnesses; these could ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1343Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1348–1351If the insanity defense is to be rescued from the stereotypes that have dominated it, lawyers and psychiatrists will have to learn more about the open texture of the legal process and the variety of evidence and issues that may be presented. The author ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1348Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1352–1357Seventy-two alcoholic patients were admitted to a controlled comparison of LSD and dextroamphetamine as treatments. In the context of little associated psychotherapeutic intervention, LSD produced slightly better results early, but after six months the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1352Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1358–1369In this study of the families of 59 manic-depressive, manic type probands, the predominant affective illness among the family members was depression without mania, although mania was frequent. The findings suggest that genetic transmission occurred by a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1358Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1370–1379Following a riot at an Indiana correctional institution for delinquent girls, the authors sought to determine whether the girls who took part in the riot differed in some demonstrable way from those who abstained from participating. The differences found ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1370Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1380–1386To investigate the relationship between hormonal changes associated with pregnancy and the increased incidence of psychiatric disturbances during the postpartum period, the authors conducted a controlled psychological and biochemical assessment of 21 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1380Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1387–1394Evidence is presented to support the hypothesis that pretrial commitment in a criminal status of mentally ill persons charged with a crime is antitherapeutic compared to the alternative of civil commitment. A seven-year follow-up of 29 persons showed few ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1387Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1395–1403The operant conditioning model was applied to a ward program for delinquent military recruits diagnosed as having character and behavior disorders. Early findings reported here indicate that the program has been quite successful in helping such men adjust ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1395Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1404–1411Patients who are initially preoccupied with external problems rather than internal conflict are often considered unsuitable candidates for insight psychotherapy. Many economically deprived patients are so viewed for reasons of both psychopathology and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1404Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1412–1418Problems in the treatment of transsexualism, a unique disorder of psychosexual orientation, stem in part from physicians' difficulty in differentiating between it and other psychosexual disorders with similar features and from the physicians' ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1412Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1419–1425In this author's view, an individual's wish for sexual transformation (transsexualism) does not constitute an independent diagnostic category. It is found in association with several clinical conditions and is a consequence of the inability to develop ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1419Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1429–1431The author explores Thomas Szasz's concept of mental illness as socially rather than organically determined, his division of analysands into "seekers" and "avoiders," and the implications of this for autonomy/heteronomy. The author feels that Dr. Szasz ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1429Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1432–1435The author enlarges on Dr. Fred M. Sander's paper summarizing his views and positions in regard to mental illness and its treatment. The difference between voluntary and involuntary assumption of the sick role is emphasized as one of the principal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1432Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1435–1439Two simple variables, instruction and reinforcement, were found to modify chronic neurotic behavior. During the experimental procedure precise control of long-established symptomatic behavior was demonstrated. Findings suggest that behavior to be changed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1435Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1439–1442The author describes the use of parallel therapy groups for mothers and children in dealing with childhood psychiatric problems, particularly those related to separation anxiety and school phobia. The therapy groups have proven successful in cutting down ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.10.1439Publication date: 01 April 1969
Pages1443–1445In an earlier study the authors reported that six out of 19 manic-depressive patients treated with lithium showed evidence of goiter, suggesting that lithium may have goitrogenic properties. They now report the finding of a similar incidence of goiter ...
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