American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 127
- Number 3
- September 1970
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages273–279The author outlines a motivational theory of human behavior that takes into account the effects on the individual of certain ubiquitous features of affluent societies, which provide an overabundance of attractive stimuli and alternatives related to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.273Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages280–285The phenomenon of hysterical psychosis is reexamined in view of the newer family concepts of psychiatric disturbances. In four patients studied, the illness was associated with anxiety related to death, aggression, and actual object loss; every patient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.280Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages286–290The author outlines the structure of a 24-hour encounter group (marathon) meeting. Nonverbal methods were felt to be effective in circumventing verbal barriers, conceptualizing and verbalizing new and unusual experiences, and providing much relevant ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.286Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages291–297The "normalization principle" formulated by Scandinavian workers in mental retardation aims at eliciting and maintaining culturally normative behavior and using culturally normative means to this end. The principle is simultaneously simple and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.291Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages298–302By means of a questionnaire the authors compared the characteristics of auditory hallucinations experienced by 45 schizophrenics and those experienced by 18 patients with alcoholic hallucinosis. The alcoholics' hallucinations were localized in space and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.298Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages303–311A systematic psychiatric study was carried out with a group of convicted women felons. All the women received at least one psychiatric diagnosis. Sociopathy, alcoholism, drug dependency. hysteria, and homosexuality were encountered more frequently than ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.303Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages312–321The authors examined the attitudes and beliefs about mental illness of 20 faith healers in the Puerto Rican community of New York City; these were compared with data collected earlier from samples of Spanish-speaking community leaders and a cross-section ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.312Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages322–329The combination of perphenazine-amitriptyline was compared to each of its constituents in a double-blind study conducted with 138 depressed and anxious-depressed neurotic outpatients. Irrespective of drug, general practice patients improved the most, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.322Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages329–335In the psychiatric literature, depressions among Negroes have been associated more with somatic complaints and less with guilt and suicidal trends. To test this concept, a comparison was made of 31 Negro and 187 white depressed patients. Initial ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.329Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages335–338A double-blind clinical trial was conducted to compare the effectiveness of desipramine and placebo in newly hospitalized patients. Analysis of data from 74 patients (34 on desipramine, 40 on placebo) showed that in patients with endogenous depression, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.335Imipramine and Lithium Effects on Biogenic Amine Transport in Depressed and Manic-Depressed Patients
Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages339–345It is often risky to extrapolate to man the results of animal studies on the mechanism of action of psychoactive drugs. In this study, platelets obtained from patients before and during treatment with imipramine and lithium were used to determine whether ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.339Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages345–351The author reports on the responses to lithium cabonate of 75 manic-depressive patients. Lithium carbonate was found to be highly effective in the acute manic state but without merit in the treatment of acute depression. Its efficacy was inversely related ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.345Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages351–353Thirteen manic patients were treated with lithium carbonate and ten manic patients with chlorpromazine in a double-blind, randomly selected drug trial. Lithium carbonate proved superior to chlorpromazine on all six parameters selected from an objective ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.351Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages354–356Reports of dramatically successful treatment of acute mania with methysergide led the authors to undertake a small study. Twelve patients with acute mania were treated with doses of methysergide that had been reported to be effective. Only one patient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.354Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages363–368The author offers one answer to the question of how psychiatry can expand its capacity for direct service if a national health insurance program removes the financial barrier to care. He describes the cooperative development of a central inpatient, day ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.363Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages368–371There has been an increasing number of sudden deaths in psychotic patients taking phenothiazines. The authors present a case report that they believe offers some insight into why such deaths occur. They feel that the combination of vasodilatation with the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.368Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages372–375The authors describe a useful teaching tool in a psychiatric residency, an ongoing group process seminar. In it residents learn to recognize and deal with the forces of competition, scapegoating, dependency, and helpless rage at the administration. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.372Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages375–379Child abuse, the author believes, is often dependent upon structural and dynamic elements within the adult. He reports two cases of mothers who beat one of their children and concludes that defective defense structures of the ego are frequently ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.375Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages379–382The authors investigated the effect of the frequency with which descriptive items are used when a check list is substituted for the usual narrative history. The results of the study suggest that rather than resulting in a loss of descriptive information ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.379Publication date: 01 September 1970
Pages382–386Mental disturbances are a common con-comitant of liver disease and are usually superimposed on gross evidence of liver failure. The authors describe two patients who had rapidly progressive and ultimately fatal liver disease but initially manifested only ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.382Publication date: 01 September 1970
Page393Page 108 of the July 1970 issue of the Journal contains two errors in the letter to the Editor by Bernard Zuger. In the first column, the first sentence of the last paragraph should read: "I did not especially go after the child's fantasies...." In the ...
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