American Journal of Psychiatry

Publication date: 01 December 1968

There is ample historical precedent for the involvement of clinical psychiatry in those foreign affairs which, at first glance, seem to lie outside the boundaries as they have been customarily defined. "Ecology" is the key word—not only in the present-day ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

While psychiatry cannot solve all the problems of international relations, it can contribute to better understanding of the nonrational and often unconscious factors that contribute to international friction. The author outlines suggested patterns of ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

In his supervisory work with treatment staff groups at the Fort Logan Mental Health Center, the author observed that many teams developed problems which seemed to derive from the impact upon the group of a particular type of individual member, designated ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

There has been speculation that the REM cycle functions as a cyclic waxing and waning of instinctual drive activity. Some studies have been made of spontaneous diurnal oral activity cycles of energy discharge which are hypothetical counterparts to the ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

The records of two groups of psychiatric patients were studied: 17 patients who committed suicide while in the hospital or within one year after discharge and 29 suicide-risk patients who did not commit suicide. A five-factor psychosocial evaluation ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

The basic principles in treatment of patients suspected of, or known to be, physically dependent on barbiturates, nonbarbiturate sedatives, and/or "minor tranquilizers" are: stabilization on pentobarbital in daily amounts and frequency of dosage ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

The author discusses the relationship between the psychedelic experience and the nonviolent ethic of the growing "hippy" subculture within the frame of reference of Freud's death instinct theory, which held that externalization of the life and death ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

The author discusses the similarities between the concepts of the "imponderables"—a group of weightless substances including heat, electricity, and love—of the 19th century—and the psychodynamic factors of the 20th century. He espouses a new concept of ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

In spite of his previous training, supervision, and analysis or therapy, a psychotherapist who treats varied and difficult patients risks incurring induced emotional problems or ignoring the development of countertransference. For 13 years a group of ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

Despite the increasing availability of legal services to the poor, the mentally ill remain excluded from such benefits. Once an individual has been committed to an institution, the law makes little provision for the protection of his legal and civil ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

The author, who chaired the British departmental committee to examine the law and practice relating to homosexual offenses and prostitution, explains the thinking behind the recommendations of the committee's report. The function of the criminal law is to ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

After reviewing the current laws and practices governing abortion in other parts of the world, the author concludes that public pressure in the United States will probably be directed increasingly toward social rather than medical indications for ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

The Abortion Act, which recently became law in Great Britain, has clarified previous uncertainty about the legal grounds for abortion. As the author points out, however, it has also raised new issues involving the rights of the unborn child, reflecting ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

Cautious implementation of Colorado's newly liberalized abortion law has obviated initial fears that the state might become an "abortion mecca." Denver General Hospital, a typical public hospital which had rarely performed therapeutic abortion, now has a ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

The California civil commitment program for addicts has achieved a modest degree of success. On parole, one out of three outpatients remains in good standing at the end of one year and one out of six at the end of three years. The value of even this ...

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Publication date: 01 December 1968

Case histories of 69 Harvard and Radcliffe students who attempted suicide were surveyed. Variables studied included the mode of suicide, precipitating factors, background factors which may have contributed, and results in terms of treatment and further ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

The authors report a preliminary study of the effects of Cylert (an equimolar compound of pemoline and magnesium hydroxide) on post-ECT learning and memory. The results appear encouraging, but further study is needed before the compound's clinical value ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

Recent events have made concern over gun laws increasingly urgent. Psychiatrists may be called upon to aid in the preparation of legislation and its enforcement through clinical evaluations and recommendations. The authors present a relevant clinical ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

A behavioral analysis of the disorder of stuttering is presented. The author outlines a program of treatment for severe adult stutterers which is based partly on this behavioral analysis and partly on empirical observations about means of influencing the ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968

The authors confirm the reports of an Ehrlich-positive mauve-colored spot on chromatograms of urine extracts in certain schizophrenic patients, and a simplified procedure for performing the test is outlined. Although the data are consistent with earlier ...

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Publication date: 01 December 1968

In the October 1968 issue, the article titled "Positive Spiking: A Double-Blind Control Study on Its Significance in Behavior Disorders, Both Diagnostically and Therapeutically," by Cornelius Boelhouwer, M.D., Charles E. Henry, Ph.D., and Bernard C. ...

Publication date: 01 December 1968