American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 126
- Number 5
- November 1969
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages597–610In a large twin series the monozygotic pair concordance rate for schizophrenia was found to be 3.3 times greater than the dizygotic rate. In contrast, the difference for psychoneurosis was only 1.3. Reanalysis of 18 earlier major twin studies revealed a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.597Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages611–618Psychotherapeutic intervention on one side or another in a marriage when divorce is being considered may serve to destroy the possibility of reconciliation. Despite the therapist's efforts to remain neutral, he inevitably finds himself thrust into the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.611Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages619–625The authors describe a system of intensive psychiatric services they developed to deal with the emergencies and difficult cases in a catchment area of 200,000 people in a low socioeconomic section of Paris. Mobile emergency and visiting teams including "...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.619Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages626–635In a single-blind study chromosome analyses were performed on three groups of subjects: 1) nine heavy users of LSD-25 who have continued to use the drug; 2) eight heavy users of LSD-25 who have ceased to use it; and 3) eight drug-free control subjects. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.626Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages636–644The author studied 23 parents to test the hypothesis that psychological processes other than the classical process might explain the inappropriate guilt reaction of parents of severely ill children. Some of the parents did suffer guilt for reasons ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.636Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages645–650A look at the Black American of today, his efforts to find a position in the mainstream of American life, and the factors that have historically and currently aggravated this attempt provides an interesting commentary on enforced group regression of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.645Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages651–657There exists a large gap in our knowledge and understanding of the correlations between adequate sexual functioning and maturity. From the classic psychoanalytic viewpoint, only those who have reached the genital stage of psychosexual development should ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.651Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages658–666A statistical study of all patients in the aeromedical system who entered Travis Air Force Base during a six-month period reveals the percentage of psychiatric patients (by individual military service) and also the percentage of patients with psychoses, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.658Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages667–674Ten years after the Group Health Insurance research project to determine the feasibility of insuring short-term ambulatory psychiatric treatment, the author describes the remarkable gains in mental health insurance in the interim. Progress has been along ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.667Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages675–681This first report on the landmark UAW psychiatric benefit program, stressing outpatient care, reveals that the program appears to be economically viable. During the first year of the outpatient benefit there was a utilization rate by Michigan UA W members ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.675Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages681–688Provisions for the treatment of mental illness under various kinds of insurance coverage have undergone dramatic change, which the author outlines. He also describes the expectations, patient and contract characteristics, and results of establishing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.681Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages689–697The authors describe a psychiatric demonstration program in a prepaid group practice plan. Among adults aged 15 and older, the average annual consultation rate was 11 per 1,000 enrollees and the treatment rate 7.5 per 1,000. Treatment visits in one year ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.689Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages698–705The author reviews the evidence for the probable acceleration of insurance coverage for mental illness treatment and points out the flaws in some of the arguments advanced by insurers against the feasibility of increased coverage. He suggests some areas ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.698Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages713–716Advanced chronological age is no barrier to continued sexual activity, provided that opportunity is present. When it is absent, and sublimated activities are also denied, difficulties may arise. Often the older person's efforts to establish a contactual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.713Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages717–720In the summer of 1967 Haight-Ashbury seemed to offer youth a solution to the ills of modern society. Runaways, who used the district as a refuge from society or home, did not exhibit the delinquent characteristics observed by earlier authors. The complex ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.717Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages721–724The authors discuss the effects of psychiatric education on the changing attitudes of a large group of physicians toward psychiatry, psychiatrists, psychotherapy, and psychiatric patients. They conclude that general physicians' attitudes toward mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.721Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages771–772Time was allotted during the conference for all participants to meet in small groups to discuss the position papers and keynote addresses. Each group appointed a recorder, who prepared a summary of his group's deliberations. A brief synopsis of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.5.771Publication date: 01 November 1969
Pages773–775As was noted earlier, this final portion of the December 1968 Council Planning Conference material summarizes some of the issues and viewpoints that arose, regardless of whether there was general consensus about them. The complete conference proceedings ...
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