American Journal of Psychiatry

Publication date: 01 February 1970

The authors describe a system in which factor scores obtained on a routine daily basis for each patient from computer scored nursing notes are subjected to sequential analysis to yield computer global decisions of "significantly better," "worse," or "...

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The authors describe the clinical and endocrine characteristics of the state of acute ego disorganization that initiated the schizophrenic episodes of four young men. Corticosteroid excretion during this phase reached levels 250 percent of subsequent ...

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There was little difference demonstrated in the prevalence of psychopathology between a group of 89 male homosexuals and a control group of 35 unmarried men. There was, however, slightly more disability and more clinically significant change in the lives ...

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The fact that myths may disguise the truth makes them potentially destructive, particularly when their legends become institutionalized. The author corrects some myths about the Negro past, especially in regard to slavery. He notes that some of the ...

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The authors present a technique for weight restoration in a condition that is often highly refractory to therapy, with mortality rates of up to 15 percent. Operant reinforcement was applied to three consecutive patients by making access to physical ...

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The most common sexual abnormality in temporal lobe epilepsy is a marked lack of libidinal and genital arousal. The author documents the occurrence of hypersexual behavior in 50 temporal lobe epileptics, 42 of whom had unilateral temporal lobectomy. ...

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To understand the problems associated with large-scale change in mental hospitals, the assessment of organizational factors is of primary importance. The unitization of Philadelphia State Hospital provided the setting for discussing one approach to this ...

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The author, after paying tribute to the late chief of the NIMH training branch, describes past and current psychiatric education. Among the contributions he believes psychiatry has made to medical education are its emphasis on methods of observation and ...

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The authors describe an experimental program at the University of Wisconsin that will integrate medical school, internship, and psychiatric residency years to allow selected medical students to complete their basic medical and psychiatric specialty ...

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This study reports results from a questionnaire study of 160 psychiatric residents receiving training in the nine institutions; data were obtained on their demographic characteristics and satisfaction with training. Results indicated that a great deal of ...

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At New York Medical College—Metropolitan Hospital Center all psychiatric residents may participate in psychotherapy groups. The significant success of the program is related to "structured interaction," the therapist's creation of a structural matrix ...

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Foreign physicians face critical linguistic and cultural barriers to learning American psychiatry. Furthermore, conventional training programs effectively deprive many of them of freedom of choice by forging a professional identity incompatible with ...

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The advent of social and community psychiatry constitutes a compelling reason for systematically presenting the basic and applied sciences underlying these areas to psychiatric residents. The State University of New York's Upstate Medical Center has ...

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The authors tested the polygraph's validity by hypnotically inducing repression and guilt in six subjects. They conclude that an individual who has committed a crime may repress this experience sufficiently to pass the polygraph test, while an anxious ...

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The authors describe a program of group therapy for men arrested for exhibitionism. The program was based on three factors: mandatory attendance, common patient goals and symptoms, and male and female co-therapists. The thesis is that external pressure is ...

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The author describes a study of the familial environment of 25 young effeminate boys. In most cases the parents' relationship with each other and with the sons was good. The boys' closeness to their mothers and distance from their fathers appeared to ...

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The author distinguishes the "koro pattern of depersonalization" from "koro," the folk illness. The former is probably universal in its distribution and more common than generally supposed; an example in an American schizophrenic is described. The ...

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The authors place extrasensory perception (ESP) in the field of psychology, using as a basis the possibility that ESP, like thought itself, is an emergent quality of brain tissue. While they describe the unscientific atmosphere surrounding these phenomena,...

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