American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 128
- Number 1
- July 1971
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages31–40The authors investigated four aspects of central control of adrenal cortical activity and three aspects of peripheral metabolism. Their results suggest that the central control mechanisms function normally during depression, but the peripheral measures of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.31Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages41–46The authors report on a six-month follow-up of the first 252 male narcotic addicts treated at Lexington under the provisions of the Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act. Data based on the aftercare counselors' monthly evaluation forms are presented on drug ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.41Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages47–51The authors conducted a follow-up survey of 66 patients who had dropped out of a methadone maintenance program. Six had died since discharge. Of the 53 who were located and interviewed, 34 had been hospitalized for physical or mental conditions or for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.47Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages52–57Children suffering major burn injury were studied; four case vignettes are presented. Significant factors that emerged included unconscious motivation and early parent loss in some parents of burned children, an unexpected finding. Positive factors for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.52Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages58–63Caring for burned children presents a difficult challenge to the personal and professional identity of nurses. The authors studied the adjustment of new nurses in the field—their initial idealized expectations, their conflict between these goals and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.58Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages64–68With the growth of health insurance coverage of mental disorders, the danger of breach of confidentiality in reports made in connection with insurance claims has increased. The author describes various kinds of abuse of confidentiality, citing some ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.64Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages69–72The author considers some of the untoward consequences of the psychiatric draft deferment letter. Four illustrative case summaries from a large urban university are presented together with recommendations for avoiding instances of iatrogenic mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.69Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages73–78The issues that five convalescent male heart patients most frequently raised during 12 weekly group meetings led by a psychiatric nurse concerned group process, current and future states of health, effects of illness on one's life, treatment of illness, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.73Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages79–84The literature describes significant personality change in first-year psychiatric residents. Although the authors found no perceptible changes in basic personality patterns in a group of first-year residents at a major university, two positive findings ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.79Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages85–90In an effort to identify characteristics of a group of medical students who were conflicted about their identity, the authors investigated the value systems and attitudes of 46 graduating medical students. The 11 students characterized by imagining ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.85Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages95–99The authors studied confusional reactions in patients receiving antidepressants. The incidence of these reactions was significant; they occurred in 13 percent of the total sample and 35 percent of those over 40 years of age. The relationship to age was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.95Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages100–104Following an increase in the intake of dietary sodium during treatment with lithium carbonate, the manic symptoms of six patients were observed to increase prior to or coincident with the reduction of side effects. Although sodium intake does influence ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.100Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages105–109The process of determining an accused person's competence to stand trial often causes indefinite commitment to mental hospitals. The authors administered the Competency Screening Test, a device for determining competency, to 43 men who had been referred ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.105Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages109–111A two-day therapeutic camping trip with the patients, their relatives, and the staff of an adult treatment team at the Fort Logan Mental Health Center in Denver was followed by widespread depressive symptoms in many. The post-camping letdown resulted in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.109Publication date: 01 July 1971
Pages111–116The authors describe characteristics of postoperative delirium observed in 60 patients. The typical delirious patient was over 60, had undergone cardiac or orthopedic surgery, became delirious on the third postoperative day and recovered by the seventh, ...
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