American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 127
- Number 11
- May 1971
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1457–1463Psychiatry must become more concerned with the first three years of life if the roots of later pathology are to be identified so that preventive measures can be undertaken. In this overview the author interweaves newer information with what is already ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1457Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1464–1472The author describes a study designed to assess stability and change in mental health over a five-year period, using 123 subjects chosen from the larger Stirling County survey sample. The results showed: 1) a tendency toward stabilization of mental health ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1464Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1473–1478The authors report a two-year study of 130 patients with a chief complaint of explosive violent behavior. When pertinent and possible, neurological and psychological tests, EEGs, pneumoencephalograms, and other tests were made. The authors noted that the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1473Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1479–1484Changing values regarding the delivery of reparative and preventive health services require increased social sensitivity as well as public health competence on the part of psychiatrists. These goals and more adequate behavioral science education for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1479Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1485–1490The authors screened 105 applicants for attendance at a week-long T-group conducted by nonprofessionals. The psychological evaluation and screening procedures included a written application, psychological tests, and a small group experience. Fifteen ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1485Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1491–1497A study of 256 school children revealed that with increasing age, children—especially boys—demonstrate increased freedom from the external environment for cues to emotional arousal; girls tend to be more visceral and less cerebral in the body sites they ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1491Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1498–1502Five cases are presented in which a homicidal adolescent`s abrupt loss of control was associated with a change in his interpersonal relationship with the victim, together with a sequence of events progressively more unbearable and less amenable to his ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1498Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1503–1508Ninety physicians who applied for psychiatric residencies were rated on a 32-item scale that included such characteristics as self-awareness, sensitivity to others, and problem-solving ability. Scores significantly discriminated between those applicants ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1503Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1509–1514A controlled cross-over trial of desensitization and flooding therapy assisted by intravenous thiopental or saline infusion was carried out in 40 patients with agoraphobia or social phobias. Patients showed gradual symptom improvement with desensitization ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1509Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1515–1520This study aimed at replicating an earlier one that demonstrated a relationship between autokinesis—the apparent motion of a pinpoint of light in a dark room—and the major psychiatric syndromes. Data collected on 1,402 psychiatric inpatients revealed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1515Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1521–1526The author reports observations extending over 16 years of persons with early total deafness. Despite the variety and severity of early stresses, schizophrenia did not appear with unusual frequency, although hallucinations (alleged to be auditory) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1521Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1527–1532The authors describe the first psychiatric research and demonstration program for the deaf in the U.S., which began in New York State in 1955. In 1963 a special inpatient unit for the deaf was opened; during its first three years it was able to discharge ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1527Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1533–1539A psychosocial investigation of 66 recently blind adults revealed that depressive reactions were prominent in a generally abating course. Visual residua and behaviors irrelevant to blindness occurred in all subjects. They are described and related to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1533Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1539–1545Very early deficiency of coenesthetic (i.e., nonspecific) sensory experience results in gross, apparently irreversible, personality disturbances. The author presents evidence indicating that the high incidence of autistic disturbances in the congenitally ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1539Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1550–1554The state mental health director today is in a position to integrate the mental health services demanded by society. There have been few attempts in the past to provide this position with the uniformity, standards, and security warranted by its potential ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1550Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1555–1558The authors conducted a single-blind study to determine whether patients with manic-depressive disease who responded favorably to lithium would show significant change when placebo was substituted. Symptoms recurred in all subjects within six weeks of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1555Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1559–1561An increase in circulating leukocytes accompanied lithium treatment in 28 consecutively studied manic-depressive patients. Acutely manic patients showed the most marked changes and maintained leukocyte counts of 10,000 to 14,000 during the first two to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1559Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1562–1565Does mental illness render a person incompetent to vote? Two studies highlight the similarity of voting behavior between patients hospitalized in a community state hospital and citizens living in the community. The results of the studies appear to dispel ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1562Publication date: 01 May 1971
Pages1566–1568Confidentiality is only partial in psychiatric examinations for security clearance. The applicant for clearance accepts this limitation because he wants clearance. The government protects the applicant's privacy as much as possible within the bounds of ...
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