American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 125
- Number 5
- November 1968
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages585–592Community psychiatry puts a new premium on efficiency in psychotherapy. Unless effective brief methods based on psychodynamic principles are developed, the practical application of the theoretical advances of the last half century may be jeopardized by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.585Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages593–604After reviewing various strategies of drug appraisal, the authors suggest a psychodynamic approach to the assessment of psychotropic drugs. They present ten ego functions and their component factors, as well as examples of how the functions are assessed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.593Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages605–614The authors report their investigation of possible relationships between the dermatologic condition of alopecia areata and the emotional state of the patient among a number of young children with the disorder. The clinical evidence suggests a dynamic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.605Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages615–621Correctional work with sex offenders is complicated by confusing statutory definitions, uncertainties about diagnosis, problems in motivation for treatment, and many other factors. After evaluating these difficulties and the resources available to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.615Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages622–626The authors report their experience with the administration of multiple monitored electroconvulsive treatment (MMECT), a technique involving multiple seizures and electronic EEG monitoring of the quality and duration of convulsive activity. Advantages of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.622Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages627–631Recent interest in postgraduate psychiatric education for nonpsychiatrist physicians has stimulated discussion of effective course planning, promotion, and content. To this increasing body of literature the authors contribute an account of their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.627Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages632–637The authors present two cases in which hyperventilation repeatedly led to hallucinations. They consider possible mechanisms and discuss their implications for the understanding of hallucinatory phenomena in schizophrenics, normals, and members of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.632Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages638–643In a society in which the state operates all psychiatric facilities, long-range planning can be directly related to what the top health officials see as major patient needs. After reviewing the organization of health services, with particular reference to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.638Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages644–649One may be admitted to the health care services of the U.S.S.R. through the polyclinics, the emergency service, the school health services, or the occupational health services. In this description of how the components operate and interact, the author ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.644Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages650–655The author describes the principal forms of treatment offered in various kinds of psychiatric facilities in the U.S.S.R., many of which are similar to those employed in the U.S. He was particularly struck with the emphasis on workshops and on community ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.650Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages656–660In the U.S.S.R., care of chronic mental patients is divided between mental hospitals, under the health authorities, and homes for invalids, under local ministries of social welfare. While there seemed to be some ambivalence in time Soviet attitude toward ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.656Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages660–665Children's services, which are integrated into the total health program, are given special emphasis in the U.S.S.R.: concern for children is high in the hierarchy of social values. While there did not seem to be any striking innovations in clinical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.660Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages665–669In the determination of criminal responsibility, Soviet psychiatrists insist that they base their judgments solely on medical factors, with primary emphasis on evidence of organicity. The author believes, however, that in practice sociocultural factors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.665Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages670–674The U.S. delegation was of the opinion that the Russian network of mental health services, while not without weaknesses and limitations, is effective, especially in the urban areas. In assessing what the U.S. might draw from the U.S.S.R. framework, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.670Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages681–684A systematic survey of consecutive admissions to the general medical wards of a large metropolitan teaching hospital revealed a high rate of alcoholism, although approximately one-third of the patients with alcoholism appeared to be in remission. Illness ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.681Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages685–689An inquiry was sent to 29 investigators conducting research involving the use of LSD or other hallucinogens, in an effort to determine what effects publicity about LSD may have had upon their research. Nineteen of the investigators reported that the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.685Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages690–692The value and potentials of videotape replay of psychodrama are reviewed. While one benefit is in showing participants what they are doing and feeling, it also permits the director to review his own actions in order to perfect and correct his technique. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.690Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages692–693In one of Freud's uncompleted works, published posthumously, reference is made to Kronos eating his children and being castrated by his son, Zeus, in retaliation. However, inspection of extant versions of the myth shows Zeus banishing but not castrating ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.692Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages694–695Dr. F. Koestl, in 1847, wrote of the necessity of dignified attitudes toward, and proper aftercare facilities for, recovered and recovering mental patients. His 196-page book, written 121 years ago, anticipated some of modern psychiatry's ideas regarding ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.694Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages696–697The authors examined the frequency of use of the psychiatric emergency room of an extremely busy municipal hospital and were unable to demonstrate any relationship between moon phase and mental illness. An area for further study, aimed at a subsample ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.5.696Publication date: 01 November 1968
Pages698–702The authors wished to determine the effect of a training program in community psychiatry on the attitudes of psychiatric residents. Using structured interviews with 12 psychiatric residents prior to, during, and at the end of a one-year training program, ...
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