American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 126
- Number 2
- August 1969
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages149–156A considerable amount of biological research into schizophrenia, mainly upon blood fluids, is performed throughout the world. The authors report their latest findings on a plasma protein factor and relate these findings to other domestic research and to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.149Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages157–167Chronic hemodialysis offers a unique opportunity to study man's adaptation to an artificial organ and to highlight some new areas in which the psychiatrist's knowledge of interpersonal relations and intrapersonal conflicts can be useful. This presentation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.157Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages168–176The experiences of a multidisciplinary team with 256 emotionally disturbed mentally retarded children are discussed, and descriptive diagnostic findings for four frequently noted types of emotional disturbance are presented, along with treatment-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.168Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages177–184In a metropolitan sample the author found three groups of disturbances among children of psychotic parents: precursive disturbances—forerunners of later adult psychoses; symbiotic—directly attributable to the type of relationship between child and sick ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.177Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages185–190Sleep studies and psychiatric examinations were made on three patients with inoperable malignancies whose illnesses were being managed with an experimental low phenylalanine-tyrosine diet. There was a systematic reduction of REM sleep, supporting the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.185Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages191–198In the past 25 years, numerous publications have cited "blackouts" as a major prodromal symptom of alcoholism. In contrast, this study, based on a structured interview with 100 hospitalized alcoholics, revealed that more than one-third of the subjects had ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.191Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages199–205With 18 psychiatrists as subjects, and utilizing filmed samples of patient behavior, the authors designed a study to investigate the relative importance of personal impression data versus life history information in arriving at a psychiatric diagnosis. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.199Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages206–212Comparisons were made between evaluations of 23 U. S. patients by 33 U. S. psychiatrists and eight U. K. psychiatrists. The most striking finding was that the U. S. psychiatrists reported almost twice as many symptoms as the U. K. group. Two possible ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.206Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages213–219The author describes an evaluation procedure to assess student competence in making clinical judgments. After viewing a videotape interview between a psychiatrist and patient, students record their observations, feelings about the patient, and plans for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.213Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages220–225This survey of British and U. S. studies of college student suicide indicates that there is an unusually high rate of suicide among college students; it is a significant cause of student death. The author believes that college student suicide is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.220Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages226–230In discussing the ethical issues of special relevance to contemporary psychiatry, the author raises some provocative questions, ranging in subject from the practitioner's responsibility for the maintenance of professional competence to the ethical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.226Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages230–237That subtle governing of the relations between physician and patient designated as medical ethics is, in the author's opinion, of the essence of medical practice. The ethical principles passed down from generation to generation of physicians are derived ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.230Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages237–240The psychiatric investigator may face dilemmas arising from the ethical obligation to obtain a patient's "fully informed" consent for the use of an experimental drug, a placebo, or a form of therapy that may produce unwanted side effects. Research may ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.237Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages241–243The young and disenchanted no longer stand in awe of past accomplishments; they are not in the mood to listen to their seniors about ethics. Moreover, "ethics" has sometimes been used not in the personal moral sense but to protect special interests. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.241Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages251–254Laboratory studies of the effects of hallucinogenic drugs on chromosomes and developing embryos are reviewed. The author concludes that at present there is no adequate evidence that these drugs cause chromosomal damage in vivo or adversely affect progeny ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.251Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages254–255Anxious-neurotic psychiatric clinic outpatients in social classes IV and V were treated over a four-week period with diphenylhydantoin, 100 mg., twice daily. While some improvement was observed in this patient group, no significant difference was noted ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.254Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages256–259In a study of the normal student concentrator, the author found that nearly all students set unrealistically high goals for their performance as concentrators and thus believe that they concentrate poorly. Subject interest, study environment, and student ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.256Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages259–261In order to assess the needs for structured continuing education programs for psychiatrists, the authors conducted a state-wide questionnaire survey among Florida psychiatrists. This instrument sought information about retrospective deficiencies in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.259Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages261–265The authors compared the current attitude toward the mentally ill in a rural Canadian town with findings from a similar town in 1951. While noting a possible trend toward greater knowledge of mental illness and sophistication about it, they caution that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.2.261Publication date: 01 August 1969
Pages272-b–272The review of Dr. Ludwig von Bertalanffy's book Organismic Psychology and Systems Theory by Dr. Silvano Arieti in the June issue of the Journal contains an error. The first full sentence on page 1751 should read "According to von Bertalanffy, Pavlov's, ...
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