American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 126
- Number 3
- September 1969
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages289–298The author, who served in Viet Nam, outlines the present approach to treating U. S. Army psychiatric casualties there, based on the principles of immediacy, proximity, and expectancy. He also describes the Army psychiatric facilities; the principal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.289Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages299–304Experience with borderline patients leads the author to conclude that their disruptive behavior is often intensified by an intensive treatment milieu that fails to set limits on their wish for gratification. He stresses the place of therapeutic transfer ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.299Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages305–313This collaborative study on the efficacy of high doses of trifluoperazine in chronic schizophrenia showed that treatment response was related to length of hospitalization; short-term patients benefited most. High doses of trifluoperazine were most ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.305Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages314–324The authors report their experience with a suicide prevention center. Most people calling the center on their own behalf were psychiatrically ill, and two-thirds were chronically so. Four-fifths of the callers had had previous professional attention for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.314Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages325–334The author reviews 131 cases of child murder and proposes a new classification of filicide by apparent motive: altruistic, acutely psychotic, unwanted child, accidental, and spouse revenge. The high frequency of altruistic motives distinguishes filicide ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.325Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages335–341There have been no psychiatric studies of Dorothea Dix despite the importance to psychiatry of her reforms. This paper focuses on some psychodynamic themes in her life: parental identifications, childhood deprivation and reaction formation, religious ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.335Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages342–347It is the authors' contention that the psychiatrist as an amicus curiae can play an effective role in pretrial examinations provided he is experienced, mature, intimately acquainted with the adversary process, and accepted as a member of the court family. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.342Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages348–359In an effort to select criteria predictive of patient response to open heart surgery, 54 patients were interviewed preoperatively and followed postoperatively. They were separated into four groups on the basis of previous adjustment, anxiety regarding the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.348Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages360–369Thirty-six patients who underwent open heart surgery were given preoperative psychiatric evaluations to determine whether postoperative expressions of delirium might be related to preexisting but covert psychiatric illness. Findings included a poor ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.360Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages369–373As the psychiatric consultant to a cardiac transplant team, this author faced a unique challenge. He discusses the factors involved in the psychiatric screening of potential candidates for the operation and describes the preoperative and postoperative ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.369Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages374–381Because so little information has been compiled regarding sexual adjustment following colostomy and ileostomy, the individual who faces or has had this type of surgery usually remains uninformed, fearful, and the victim of various myths, such as loss of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.374Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages381–387Eight out of 11 patients who died following renal transplantation were noted to have suffered a sense of abandonment by their families or to have experienced panic and a sense of pessimism about the outcome of the operation, to a degree not observed among ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.381Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages388–395Sixty patients who experienced postoperative delirium were compared with a group of 57 control patients, matched on the basis of type of surgery, age, and sex, who did not experience delirium. Significant differences were found between the two groups in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.388Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages400–404A controlled comparative investigation showed that temporal lobe epilepsy of the dominant hemisphere predisposes to psychotic manifestations; epilepsy of the non-dominant temporal lobe is associated with manic-depressive psychotic reactions and epilepsy ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.400Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages404–407A study covering three generations of families of abused children supports the themes that violence breeds violence and that a child who experiences violence as a child has the potential of becoming a violent member of society in the future. The authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.404Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages408–412Image therapy aims to reverse threatening and frightening mental images so that the patient can picture objects as manageable. The author presents various methods of dealing directly with imagination, especially as it relates to images of the patient's ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.408Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages412–415The authors present a further account of twins, classifiable as idiots savants, whose ability to name the day of the week for a given date in any year, and the converse, has led to conjecture on the mechanism by which they perform the feat. Their method ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.412Publication date: 01 September 1969
Pages453–455This statement was approved by the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association in May 1969 upon recommendation of the Association's Committee on Transcultural Psychiatry. The statement had been prepared jointly by this committee and the ...
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