American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 127
- Number 2
- August 1970
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages125–131To study the impact of the current external barrage on man's nervous and mental functioning, neurology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, along with the entire spectrum of the behavioral sciences, must collaborate and each contribute its own unique ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.125Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages132–137The relationship between adolescence and schizophrenia is described, with emphasis on the importance of developmental evaluation in considering the formulation of a therapeutic program. The author points out the usefulness of involving the adolescent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.132Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages138–146With the breakdown of the mentally ill parent, there is generally a disruption in family members and the family as a whole, followed by re-integration or disintegration depending on the family's premorbid adjustment, their previous socioeconomic and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.138Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages147–154A study of 57 homosexual women and 43 single heterosexual controls revealed slightly more clinically significant changes and disability in the lives of the homosexual women as compared with the heterosexual women. The chief differences were in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.147Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages155–161Reports concerning the number of suicides among those who have called suicide prevention centers have varied considerably in methods and in results. It is therefore difficult to determine the relevance or effectiveness of such centers. The author points ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.155Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages162–166The author surveys cultural psychiatric research in the Caribbean Islands. After an ethnographic introduction to the area, he deals with observations concerning the frequency, distribution, and symptomatology of mental disorders, reasons for differences ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.162Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages167–174A previously disregarded but consequential influence upon the conceptual model of dynamic psychiatry as evolved by Freud is that of military science. Thus many fundamental terms bear obvious military connotations, including conflict, defense, repression, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.167Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages175–179Eight cases of physical symptoms occurring during pleasurable emotional states are reported and discussed. Although physical activity accompanying these emotions may account for some of the physical symptoms occurring during pleasure, in other instances ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.175Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages180–185The author evaluates the significance of van Gieson`s pioneering work and original concepts in relation to the historical development of research in psychiatry and the foundation of the Pathological Institute of the New York State Hospitals for the Insane,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.180Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages186–190Antipsychotic drugs are the most useful treatment available for the most serious psychiatric disorders. Despite the plethora of available drugs, a rational choice of few will provide a full range of therapeutic effects. One must always choose drugs in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.186Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages191–199Thyroid stimulating hormone, when combined with imipramine, produces a more rapid recovery from depression than does imipramine alone. It seems more potent than triiodothyronine in potentiating imipramine, but dose differences prevent accurate comparison. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.191Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages199–207By comparing biochemical and behavioral actions of d- and l- isomers of amphetamine, the authors show that locomotor hyperactivity, an animal model for the central stimulant effects of amphetamine, is mediated by brain norepinephrine. By contrast, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.199Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages208–218In a double-blind controlled study of 122 patients from four populations, amitriptyline produced the most and placebo the least amount of symptomatic improvement, with trimipramine slightly less efficacious than amitriptyline; general practice patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.208Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages218–222The authors review all available studies of lithium therapy of mania (comprising 805 patients) to determine whether lithium's pharmacologic efficacy has been demonstrated in the customary manner. All studies reviewed except for one were found to have ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.218Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages228–232The author describes and provides examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary preventive psychiatry within a combat division in Viet Nam. He suggests that a knowledge of individual, group, hospital, community, and organizational dynamics may be applied ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.228Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages232–237In recent years doubt has been cast upon the effectiveness of community mental health programs. The author reviews one program, that of the Yorkton Psychiatric Centre in Saskatchewan, that seems to have succeeded. He pays particular attention to problem ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.232Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages237–241The authors conducted a study on 199 emergency walk-in patients, 98 of whom were given a one-month follow-up interview and free medication samples by first-year resident. This manipulation increased the therapists' optimism about prognosis, the number of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.237Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages242–244The author describes several cases in which patients showed psychotic symptoms in interviews held in their native languages but not in those conducted in foreign languages, possibly because the effort of communicating in another tongue produces ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.242Publication date: 01 August 1970
Pages245–248The author discusses the changing role of punishment for crime in modern society, especially its increasing ineffectiveness. He suggests as a possible solution the large-scale use of television for education against criminal impulses.
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