American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 127
- Number 5
- November 1970
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages585–590The author describes some of the new directions now being taken in the training of psychiatrists and points out the problems they present to thorough education. He is particularly concerned with training in community psychiatry; he discusses four models ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.585Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages591–598The standard prefrontal lobotomy operation was introduced as a treatment for mental illness in 1935. Although many patients benefited from it, the neurological and psychiatric side effects often proved more disabling than the psychiatric illness itself. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.591Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages599–605A psychiatric faculty was confronted with the need for change by discontented first-year medical students. A description of the events and some of the factors involved in the faculty response to the student demands is presented. There were a number of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.599Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages606–610While the depression that follows a psychotic episode in a late adolescent may be very painful to the patient, the therapist should view it as a good prognostic sign: the patient recognizes his psychic "bankruptcy" and is willing to do some needed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.606Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages611–616Several studies of schizophrenic and normal patients suggested a plant food dietary source for urinary 3, 4-DMPEA. The authors' study of three nonschizophrenics found this urinary amine (positively identified by mass spectrometry) present during free diet ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.611Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages617–625The curse, or sinister prophecy, is discussed from the viewpoint of its role in family communications. Illustrations are presented from four families. The creation and maintenance of a curse as part of a larger family mythology involves individual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.617Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages626–634The authors examine the role of a traditional treatment approach—psychoanalytically oriented child psychotherapy—in an innovative special school program designed to help hitherto unreachable early latency children from core city problem families. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.626Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages634–645Psychometric, neurological, and EEG studies were made of 24 children with scholastic-behavioral problems but no classical evidence of neurological disease and of 24 matched controls. Differences between the two groups were significant in all three ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.634Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages646–651The authors present some of the results of their pilot study to test the efficacy of brief psychotherapy with 33 children with various disorders and to compare its usefulness with traditional, long-term psychotherapy with a control group of 35 children. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.646Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages652–658The authors report on an investigation into the influences of class background on the diagnoses, clinical perceptions, prognoses, and recommendations for treatment of two groups of child psychiatrists: those who were born into the upper middle class and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.652Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages658–664The authors describe their assessment of the value of the new GAP classification of childhood disorders, which took place after this system had been in use in their facility for a year, during which time 310 children were seen. They also compare the GAP ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.658Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages665–671Ten battered children and their families were evaluated by the author over a six-year period. It was found that important factors leading to abuse were fantasies of the abuser about the child, exaggerated dominant-submissive patterns in the marriage, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.665Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages671–677The authors report their observations of five children with the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and review the literature to describe the general characteristics of the disorder, the development and types of self-mutilative behavior, and the types of outward-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.671Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages683–686The author presents three case reports of young men with histories of hallucinogen usage who experienced visual disturbances while driving. None was "high" at the time of the experience. It is likely that the disturbances were due to recurrences of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.683Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages686–690The authors describe an aspect of the Illinois Zone Plan, which is dependent upon substantial increases in local, noninstitutional, and private mental health services to achieve reductions in the use of institutional care under state auspices. Apparent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.686Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages690–694The author discusses a case of acute brain syndrome with depression, peripheral neuropathy, and transient parkinsonism following ingestion of large amounts of disulfiram. He reviews clinical and experimental evidence bearing on the relationship between ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.690Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages694–697Phrenology is defined as the study of the conformation of the skull as indicative of mental faculties and character. The authors trace the development of this definition from Benjamin Rush, who meant phrenology to describe faculty psychology, through ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.5.694Publication date: 01 November 1970
Pages698–703Ten patients with a diagnosis of pathological intoxication and two with temporal lobe seizures and implanted depth electrodes were studied. An attempt was made to replicate symptomatic behavior and record the EEGs simultaneously. All patients showed ...
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