American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 126
- Number 1
- July 1969
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1969
Pages21–28The great social shocks of the mid-60s—war, riots, and assassinations—have convinced many of America's young people that our society is sick. While acknowledging that evidence of society's malfunctioning is tangible and irrefutable, the author believes ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.1.21Publication date: 01 July 1969
Pages29–42As one of the four fundamental orientations in psychiatry, the biological approach has provided a strong foundation for psychiatric practice, rooted in medical tradition. The author traces its philosophy, methods, and theories from the early 19th-century ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.1.29Publication date: 01 July 1969
Pages43–52The authors trace the history of community psychiatry along six lines of development—social psychiatry, changes in hospital programs, development of clinics, evolution of the mental health professions, growth of federally supported programs, and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.1.43Publication date: 01 July 1969
Pages53–58Treatment of several patients in analysis seemed obstructed by a single persisting symptom; in each case a consultant psychiatrist removed the symptom through hypnosis and the patients were returned to their referring psychotherapist. The authors note ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.1.53Publication date: 01 July 1969
Pages59–69One hundred seventy-six male alcoholic patients participated in a controlled investigation of the differential efficacy of three LSD treatment procedures and a "no therapy," or milieu treatment, condition. Half of each group was also assigned to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.1.59Publication date: 01 July 1969
Pages70–76A group of Texas psychiatrists, working through a private, profit-making corporation, have been providing service to medically indigent patients by means of a contract arrangement since 1964; no federal funds are involved. During this period the group's ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.1.70Publication date: 01 July 1969
Pages77–84Seven boys with primary enuresis were measured by 62 all-night EEGs, during which time 48 wets occurred. Imipramine was administered in a placebo, drug cross-over manner. Subjects with predominantly arousal enuresis showed increased evidence of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.1.77Publication date: 01 July 1969
Pages85–90Two instances of anorexia nervosa in one of a pair of monozygotic twins offered the opportunity to evaluate the relative importance of constitutional and psychological factors and to highlight patterns of experience relevant for the psychodynamic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.1.85Publication date: 01 July 1969
Pages91–96Twenty-five lesbian girls between the ages of 12 and 17 were investigated with special emphasis on family background and relationships. The reversed oedipal formulation that appears to describe many lesbians raised in intact nuclear families was not ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.1.91Publication date: 01 July 1969
Pages104–108A seven-year study of 16 children and two adults with implanted pacemakers showed that the patients and their parents were singularly free from evidence of regression in psychic functioning. Their accommodation to the stress of heart block and artificial ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.1.104Publication date: 01 July 1969
Pages108–112Investigation of the effect of "problem patients" on medical school personnel showed the patients' conduct and values were at variance with normative medical and nursing expectations. Through statistical analysis the authors identified the principal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.1.108Publication date: 01 July 1969
Pages112–116A psychoanalytic view of the community mental health agency is presented. Particular process problems can arise in agency/community (analyst/patient) relations, internal administrative and paperwork problems, and personnel conflicts leading to "agency ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.1.112Publication date: 01 July 1969
Pages116–121Using his Self-Rating Depression Scale in six foreign countries, the author found that self-ratings of depressed patients were comparable between countries and differed significantly from scores of normal subjects and nondepressed patients. There was high ...
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