American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 128
- Number 10
- April 1972
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1207–1211Since methvldopa has been classified as a central nervous system depressant that produces tranquilization and reversible extrapyramidal symptoms, as well as reducing central amines, it has been suggested that it might have an antipsychotic potential. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1207Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1212–1218The psychiatric literature dealing with the significance of stress in the causation of depression is reviewed. Definitive studies await the indispensable conceptual tools of a comprehensive theory. The author suggests criteria for distinguishing normal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1212Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1219–1223Preliminary experience and empirical measures suggest that second-year psychiatry can be taught effectively with a multimedia mix of videotaped interviews with patients, an inventory of critical symptoms, a diagnostic chart illustrating clustering of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1219Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1224–1229Physicians have been extremely successful in attempts to quit smoking cigarettes. On the basis of their psychological awareness and espousal of the reality principle, one might expect psychiatrists to be the most successful in changing this maladaptive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1224Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1230–1238A double-blind, controlled study with frequent rating of symptoms, using a homogeneous population of 49 patients with primary depression, was conducted to measure the possible enhancement of imipramine's antidepressant activity by T3 and dexamethasone and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1230Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1239–1243The authors studied 28 good prognosis and 25 poor prognosis schizophrenics, differentiated on the basis of duration of illness and premorbid level of functioning. When compared for differences in symptomatology, the good prognosis group was found to be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1239Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1244–1248Within eight months, 36 patients seen at the Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C., presented the problem of differentiating between a toxic psychosis caused by ingestion of over-the-counter sleeping medications containing scopolamine and a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1244Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1249–1256A reasonably sophisticated knowledge of administrative theory and practice is important to psychiatrists in their clinical and educational activities. By virtue of their skills and attitudes, psychiatrists have particular administrative capacities and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1249Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1257–1261The authors describe a community-oriented treatment modality called "Hale Nui," in use in a military community in Hawaii. A graduated program stressing group therapy and activity—social as well as therapeutic—encourages the individual to practice using ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1257Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1262–1267Data on sexual behavior were gathered on 261 white men and 241 white women aged 45 to 69. Dramatic differences between men and women of like age were observed in regard to virtually all indicators of sexual behavior, with the men generally reporting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1262Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1268–1272The author sketches some of the psychodynamic insights of certain frequently occurring crisis situations, including work disorders and disruptions in significant relationships. The psychopathology underlying the symptoms of homosexuals and those of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1268Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1272–1276A questionnaire study on one college campus revealed that drug users were significantly more likely to engage in sexual intercourse, to engage in it earlier in life, and to engage in it regularly and with a greater variety of partners. This held true ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1272Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1276–1283The responses of 18 psychiatrists and 122 psychiatric inpatients to a questionnaire survey at a Boston hospital showed that most psychiatrists and 20 to 50 percent of the patients believed that sexual functioning might contribute to psychiatric disorders, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1276Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1283–1289The author studied the outcome of 16 subjects who had exhibited feminine behavior as young boys. A structured interview, devised b culling from the literature those factors considered to be associated with gender identity disturbances, and a battery of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1283Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1294–1297Despite the volume of research on sensory deprivation, little work has been done on sensory overload. The author reports the preliminary results of a study indicating that approximately 24 percent of 46 normal subjects exposed to sensory overload (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1294Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1298–1302The free clinic is a relatively new medical institution and few data exist on the kinds of populations it serves. The authors studied a group of patients who appeared at a free clinic in San Diego. They found that most of the patients were white and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1298Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1303–1305The authors studied 84 bipolar and unipolar depressed patients by means of a questionnaire to determine whether they showed symptoms of increased sleep time. Their finding that hypersomnia is not an unusual symptom of depression has implications both for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1303Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1305–1309Although the historic beginnings of genuine psychiatric hospital treatment are still a matter of controversy, evidence is accumulating that the first authentic psychiatric hospitals in the Western world were founded in Spain during the 15th century. This ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1305Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1310–1312The authors examined the hypothesis of disordered transmethylation in schizophrenia by comparing S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe) concentration and cathechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) activities in venous blood of schizophrenic and nonschizophrenic patients. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1310Publication date: 01 April 1972
Pages1313–1314Patients hospitalized for medical illnesses may develop a "low sodium syndrome" due either to sodium depletion or to the presence of an inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone. This can be further aggravated by a low sodium diet and can lead to an ...
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