American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 126
- Number 9
- March 1970
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1205–1212EEG examinations and cerebral blood flow determinations were carried out in two groups of relatively healthy aged community volunteers who participated in a longitudinal study. Intellectual function, as assessed by the WAIS, was correlated with these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1205Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1213–1223Sleep patterns were studied longitudinally in six acute schizophrenic patients throughout most of their hospital stays, ranging from 25 to 224 consecutive nights, and the data were compared with those from 15 normal control subjects. The sleep patterns of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1213Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1224–1229The majority of 31 women who were surveyed after having therapeutic abortions reported that they felt content and mentally healthy. But since no studies predict which women with unwanted pregnancies might become mentally ill if abortion is denied, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1224Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1230–1236The author reviews the experience of a California hospital with 147 patients treated under a liberalized therapeutic abortion law. Concern and proper care for these patients minimized the development of guilt, remorse, and depression; they generally ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1230Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1237–1244The author describes a psychiatric consultation program in a cancer research unit. First the nurses were helped to handle their feelings in regard to terminally ill patients. Later an experiment in self-care by the patients was undertaken; it improved the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1237Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1245–1251Three systems are operative in the selection of a living, genetically related, kidney donor: the self-selection of the volunteers, the medical team selection for the best match, and a family system that operates chiefly by excluding certain members from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1245Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1252–1255Recent advances in the use of human organs and tissue in medical research and therapy have dramatized the need for legal guidelines to achieve a balance between the expectations of society and individual rights in this area. The author describes the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1252Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1256–1260The authors present a typological classification useful in the therapy of opiate dependence based on patients' self-ratings of their need for opiates. Fourteen male subjects on cyclazocine treatment for up to two and one-half years reported less ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1256Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1261–1266The author outlines some of the intrauterine influences on neonatal behavior. Sex hormones used therapeutically in pregnancy may critically alter the genotype's sexual expression as well as its behavior. Dietary inadequacy in early fetal life may change ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1261Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1267–1274A sample of 176 patients admitted to a day and night hospital was studied in an attempt to identify factors predictive of complete utilization of a partial hospitalization program and to relate these specifically to the way in which such programs are now ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1267Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1275–1281The author believes that alcoholism is an emotional illness and should be treated like any other emotional illness. At present, prejudice toward the alcoholic often hides this fact and hinders his care. After outlining psychotherapeutic strategies and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1275Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1282–1289Three studies were designed to investigate telepathic effects in REM sleep. On each night a target (art print) was randomly selected by an agent who spent the night in a distant room attempting to telepathically influence the subject's dreams, which were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1282Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1290–1296The author reviews the literature on the possible toxicity of nicotinic acid, whose therapeutic value in the treatment of schizophrenia is still in dispute. While the drug appears to be relatively harmless, caution in prescribing it is advised, especially ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1290Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1302–1305Systematic studies of psychiatric malpractice are scarce. Defendant psychiatrists try to avoid publicity, and many cases escape notice. A survey of psychiatric malpractice claims in southern California between 1958 and 1967 showed no increase in claims ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1302Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1306–1310Lithium, at a dosage of 1,800 mg. daily, was found to be effective in the treatment of acute manic states. However, when compared with chlorpromazine by means of a double-blind technique using stringent diagnostic criteria, no significant difference ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1306Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1310–1314Screening evaluation, allowing the clinic patient ready access to the psychiatrist and to treatment, proved useful at the University of Virginia Hospital mental health clinic and seemed an adequate first experience for patients. It eliminated the waiting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1310Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1315–1317The authors present case reports of three patients with similar pathology in their social, vocational, and sexual adjustment who developed paranoid or paranoid hallucinatory syndromes in conjunction with the abuse of mephentermine from Wyamine inhalers. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1315Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1318–1321The authors discuss their study of the 100 Mexican psychiatrists who have trained in the United States; only 46 have returned to Mexico. Factors in their failures to return include the greater financial and professional opportunities outside Mexico, poor ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1318Publication date: 01 March 1970
Pages1321–1325The authors discuss their attempt to establish a community psychiatry program with an emphasis not on direct services but on consultation to administrative personnel of existing agencies. They present their problems with the community and conclude that ...
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