American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 125
- Number 2
- August 1968
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages141–146As men seek the answers to the major public policy questions of our time, they increasingly turn to psychiatry. The author cites several major areas where he feels psychiatry has a potential contribution, including health economics, antisocial disorders, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.141Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages147–150The author assumes that psychiatrists wish to participate in the social evolution and revolution that are today's reality. However, he cautions against over-enthusiasm for the new fashions in psychiatry and stresses the need for careful evaluation and for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.147Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages151–159The authors describe a marital syndrome associated with the diagnosis of paranoid state in nine married women. These women had chosen husbands who were passive, socially isolated, and unable to directly express angry or sexual feelings; they were likely ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.151Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages160–167By sampling articles on narcotic addiction from the popular magazines over the past seven decades, the authors investigated trends in public attitudes toward the narcotic addict. In comparison with the public view in 1900, the addict is now seen as less ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.160Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages168–178By systematically interviewing relatives of a series of hospital patients who died, the authors have delineated the symptoms of normal bereavement. Only three symptoms—depressed mood, sleep disturbance, and crying—occurred in more than one-half of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.168Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages179–185The author describes the results of group therapy for male genital exhibitionists in a community mental health clinic. Group treatment in an open setting was found to be an efficient and effective program if certain diagnostic considerations were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.179Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages186–191Descriptions of the general hospital psychiatric unit are often based upon facilities in large university centers and teaching hospitals. The psychiatric unit in a small community hospital faces very different problems. The authors review the steps they ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.186Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages192–196During a ten-month period 1,200 U. S. soldiers were admitted to an Army hospital in South Viet Nam with falciparum malaria. Nineteen developed "cerebral malaria," and three of these showed dramatic personality changes manifested as apparent "functional" ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.192Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages197–205The author reports the study of 36 attempted suicides in Guyana, an emerging nation where suicide attempts are a major public health problem. The incidence of suicide is lower among persons of African descent, which reflects the fact that there are a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.197Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages206–212Psychiatrists are increasingly being asked to participate in school and community programs on sex education. The author describes the development of typical programs, pointing out that their current aims are similar in many ways to those of preventive and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.206Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages213–216In Japan from 1900 to 1950 the so-called law of private imprisonment provided for the confinement of the mentally ill in private cells. The authors describe the conditions to which the mentally ill were subjected during this time, with special reference ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.213Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages219–223It is commonly assumed that the American Indian is faced with "inevitable" assimilation, either voluntary or involuntary, into the majority culture. As this author points out, however, the Indian has managed to find alternatives in the past when, in his ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.219Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages224–231The school experiences of Indian children tend to accentuate rather than resolve their identity problems; the outcome is often an increase in behavioral and disciplinary difficulties. At some point between the fourth and seventh grades a decline in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.224Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages232–236Efforts to combat the psychosocial stresses existing within the Indian community should focus upon involving the Indian in the determination of his own fate. The author outlines a new role for the federal government in its historic relationship to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.232Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages243–245Urine chlorpromazine excretion was measured in 28 senile patients who had been unmedicated for 12 to 18 months. Significant amounts of chlorpromazine were often detectable. The excretion rate of chlorpromazine could be increased by administration of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.243Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages245–249In order to assess the relationship between severe cataracts and violent headbanging, ophthalmologic examinations were performed on a random group of institutionalized headbangers; it was found that the majority had cataracts of varying maturity. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.245Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages249–252The membership and dynamics of self-help weight-reduction groups, which are successful for a number of obese women, are explored. While such a group probably accomplishes no alteration in personality, it strengthens existing defenses. The authors were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.249Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages253–255The authors studied 850 patients being treated with chlorpromazine for changes in blood sugar level. While the 22 diabetic patients in the sample did not show significant modifications in their blood sugar levels, five patients developed diabetes after ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.253Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages255–260A young male subject developed an acute psychotic reaction during an eight-hour sensory deprivation experiment. His delusions lasted several days, and severe anxiety and depression lasted several weeks. This is the third reported case of such a prolonged ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.255Publication date: 01 August 1968
Pages260–265Sixty-three military wives experiencing psychiatric disturbances while separated from their husbands for military reasons are compared with 113 wives not separated but needing psychiatric help. Some important psychodynamics of separation are discussed, ...
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