American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 126
- Number 12
- June 1970
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1697–1704Using a modified Q-sort test administered to 13 male alcoholics, the authors attempted to assess alcoholics' expectancies prior to drinking and to compare these with their subsequent self-reports of feeling states and behavior during experimentally ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1697Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1705–1710As President of the American Psychiatric Association and as a psychiatrist deeply interested in expanding the role of psychiatry in the international sphere, Dr. Waggoner reviewed the progress made in the development and promotion of transcultural ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1705Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1711–1717Four years of psychiatric services provided to seven secondary schools have produced qualitative changes in the schools and increased teacher acceptance of psychiatric consultation about students. More students were seen each year. Teachers and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1711Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1718–1726The West Philadelphia Community Mental Health Consortium, an enterprise in which six hospitals and a university cooperate to deliver comprehensive mental health care, is planning jointly with an area component of the Regional Medical Program to enlarge ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1718Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1727–1735Witchcraft, held to be an anti-Christian heresy with evil supernatural powers, is distinguished from common superstition and reviewed. The author suggests individual and group psychodynamics to explain the delusion, its inclusion of perverse sexuality, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1727Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1736–1742In presenting his observations about college students who seek psychiatric help, the author offers some suggestions for a clinical and psychodynamic approach that takes into consideration the current subcultural group characteristics of college students. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1736Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1743–1751This survey of medicinal and drug use patterns among students at two colleges revealed that the majority of functioning students had not become involved in the use of illicit drugs. Those who were taking illicit drugs at the time of the survey represented ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1743Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1752–1759A representative sample of 107 social activists who were arrested during the Chicago protest demonstrations in 1968 completed a self-administered questionnaire, providing the data for this study. The demonstrators were likely to be of upper middle class ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1752Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1760–1766Each patient admitted to the youth drug study unit, a therapeutic community for adolescents with drug problems, is asked to make a videotape monologue. The tape is replayed to him immediately, and he can choose to have it erased or to review it with his ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1760Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1771–1773Of the patients in a VA mental hygiene clinic, 81 percent receiving antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs were studied as to their use of medication and the extent to which they accurately reported their use. The authors found that a small number were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1771Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1773–1776The authors conducted a psychiatric study of the wives of convicted felons that reveals an example of assortative mating. The wives, like their husbands, come from grossly disturbed family backgrounds and show the same psychopathology seen among their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1773Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1777–1781A service of the government, Swedish psychiatry is more a part of traditional somatic medicine than in America, and the psychiatrist's role is more that of a symptom remover than a problem solver. Having missed the era of individual, dynamic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1777Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1782–1787The author studied depressed and nondepressed patients who were comparable in terms of age, social class, and parental age at birth to see if a greater incidence of past or present object loss occurred in either group. While no significant differences ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1782Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1787–1790During a heat wave in July 1969, the authors encountered three fatal cases of heat stroke. All the patients had been treated with phenothiazines, which affect temperature regulation and suppress sweating, and two with anti-Parkinsonian agents, which also ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1787Publication date: 01 June 1970
Pages1790–1794The author sketches the current state of British psychiatry under the National Health Service, describes the changes produced by the Mental Health Act of 1959, and reports on the 1969 annual meeting of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association of Great ...
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