American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 126
- Number 4
- October 1969
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages457–469Twenty euthyroid patients with retarded depression were studied to determine the possible role of alterations in thyroid function in the etiology and treatment of depression. A battery of tests was administered regularly to measure change. Patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.457Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages470–480Previous studies of mortality among psychiatric patients have dealt only with inpatient populations. This study analyzes the mortality experience of persons having received psychiatric care as inpatients or outpatients in public and private institutions. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.470Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages481–487Ninety-five alcoholic patients took part in a single-blind study of the efficacy of LSD treatment, which featured four treatment groups: LSD given with and without a therapist present, sodium amobarbital-methamphetamine hydrochloride given with a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.481Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages488–497A study in which four healthy adult males underwent 205 hours of sleep deprivation indicated that although they suffered transient ego disruptive phenomena, they did not appear to undergo psychopathological reactions extending beyond the period of sleep ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.488Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages498–504Charts of 100 schizophrenic inpatients, of whom half deteriorated and half recovered, were rated on the Becker-Wittman and Phillips Prognostic Scales by a rater blind to the long-term follow-up. Scores on both scales were highly correlated with each other,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.498Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages505–511Trichotillomania in children is not a common occurrence. It appears to occur more frequently in girls than in boys, however, and cuts across all ages and a wide range of nosological categories. Emotional deprivation in the maternal relationship during ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.505Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages512–518The author believes that in a limited number of cases homosexuality can be successfully treated by a direct attack on the symptom of phobic avoidance of women. He cites three case histories in which this approach was used.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.512Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages519–525The compleat forensic psychiatrist, as described by the authors, must not only have competence in many areas—pre-trial evaluation, post-trial treatment and follow-up, training, and research—but must be able to communicate his ideas to lay people as well ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.519Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages525–531This paper describes the method and content of an experimental course aimed at teaching human relations in legal role performance. In both the lawyer-client relationship and the lawyer-lawyer relationship, human factors often play a determining role in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.525Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages531–537The authors outline some of the problems involved in making a determination of legal insanity when a crime is committed following the use of LSD. Three cases of murder known to be associated with the use of LSD are described, one of them involving an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.531Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages538–542Recent mental health legislation has attempted to reduce the stigma of mental illness by promoting the treatment of mentally ill patients, so far as possible, on the same basis as other sick people. Involuntary patients are protected against unwarranted ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.538Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages542–546The traditional role of the psychiatrist in correctional institutions has been limited to diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. The authors describe an experimental program at Clinton Prison which, under psychiatric direction, is directed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.542Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages551–554Thirty-two outpatients at a community mental health center were treated in a double-blind study using thioridazine and a placebo. The target symptom of anxiety was observed and measured prior to treatment and at weekly interviews for four weeks. It was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.551Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages555–560The author presents case histories of American civilians in South Viet Nam who came to psychiatric attention. Of interest were the patients' frequent past histories of psychiatric illness and their sense of failure elsewhere. The author discusses the high ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.555Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages560–565The author presents a clinical description and case reports concerning four types of "psychical seizures": hallucinations, perceptual illusions, mood or emotional disturbances, and forced thinking. All are symptoms of paroxysmal disturbance in cerebral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.560Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages565–569Flashbacks are returns of imagery for extended periods after the immediate effect of hallucinogens has worn off. The most symptomatic form is recurrent intrusions of the same frightening image into awareness, without volitional control. The author ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.565Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages570–573In a cineradiographic study of swallowing in four groups of subjects, it was found that chlorpromazine had no effect on the swallowing mechanism in schizophrenics. Half of the schizophrenic patients showed cineradiographic abnormalities in swallowing. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.4.570Publication date: 01 October 1969
Pages573–576A 77-year-old woman without previous glucose metabolism disorder received electroshock treatment for severe agitated depression, after which she experienced prolonged "postshock" confusion and paranoid delusions. A trial of haloperidol in gradually ...
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