American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 128
- Number 12
- June 1972
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1483–1491Until recently aging and the aged tended not only to be neglected but to be subject to misconceptions and myths. In this overview the author points out that most of the elderly are emotionally healthy persons who retain the same drives and ego operations ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1483Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1492–1498The authors report that premenopausal depressed women with regular menstrual cycles have higher levels of plasma MAO activity and greater EEG responses to photic stimulation than do nondepressed women. These abnormalities are interpreted as evidence of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1492Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1499–1504The personality structure of activists was compared with those of activist-sympathizers and conservatives on a university campus. The activists were most clearly distinguished from the other two groups in their manifestation of unconscious ambivalence ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1499Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1505–1510The perceptual style of processing stimuli (kinesthetic figural aftereffects) by 53 acute psychiatric inpatients was related to disorders in their perceptual experience of the environment and in their formal thought processes (overinclusive and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1505Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1511–1515Data obtained from a survey of federally funded mental health centers in operation for more than two months in 1969 revealed that the 205 centers provided care for an estimated 372,000 persons, with 23 percent on inpatient and 73 percent on outpatient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1511Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1516–1523Coverage for drug addiction is fairly common in both commercial and other health insurance policies, but benefits are often limited. Restrictions pertaining to treatment in specialized facilities or after incarceration, and to care by less traditional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1516Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1524–1528Computer analysis of brain waves telemetered from a freely moving patient with chronic schizophrenia has permitted automatic recognition of a variety of behaviors and successful discrimination between bizarre and normal-appearing behavior in the same ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1524Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1529–1533Differences in value orientation cause serious adaptation problems in both the Puerto Rican migrant and in the human and social institutions responsible for his education, employment, health, and recreation. The author discusses methods and techniques by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1529Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1534–1539A study of 30 kidney transplant patients who had received cadaver homografts focused on their overall adaptation, changes in life-style, and the occurrence of the themes of rebirth, ambivalence over accepting a cadaver organ, and death. In general the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1534Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1540–1546Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a heritable disorder of connective tissue that is characterized by multiple fractures, severe deformities, and disturbances of growth that frequently result in dwarfism. A study of 12 children with OI found them to be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1540Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1546–1550Huntington's disease is inherited and is usually not detectable until after the affected individual marries and produces children. As genetic knowledge increases there will be a growing awareness of its personal significance to members of kindreds having ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1546Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1550–1552In attempting to explore the relationship between orienting mechanisms and behavior, the incidence of motion sickness in various diagnostic categories was determined and a meaningful diagnostic continuum was constructed. Through examination of unilateral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1550Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1552–1554In a double-blind test to determine whether the antinuclear factor (ANF) was present in patients with psychiatric disorders, a significantly greater number of positive ANF results was found in patients whose conditions were characterized by depression.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1552Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1554–1560The authors followed 41 physically handicapped children through their first few years in school, examining the developmental process in the life of such children. They found that most of the children underwent two well-defined crises related to specific ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1554Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1565–1569In this study the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) was given to 400 adult psychiatric inpatients in order to test its capacity for distinguishing between alcoholic and nonalcoholic patients. Thirty percent of the total population—50 percent of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1565Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1570–1571In reviewing the British and American literature regarding the effectiveness of drugs in treating alcoholism, the author found that success was frequently claimed in studies that were uncontrolled and that lacked objective means of comparison. Only one ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1570Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1572–1576The authors report their experience over an 18-month period with 208 patients who abused amphetamines, barbiturates, and hallucinogens. Although treatment modalities of psychotropic medications and individual and group psychotherapy were offered, almost ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1572Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1576–1577The authors studied the effects of single and repeated doses of medication on the same individuals. They compared the direction of change found after an individual had taken a single dose of medication with that found after he had taken the same drug for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1576Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1578–1581Children reared with love and respect mature adequately and become loving, responsible, and productive spouses, parents, and citizens. Those reared in such a way that they hate their parents will also hate other persons for life. If repressed, this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1578Publication date: 01 June 1972
Pages1581–1584The author cites a 1,000-year-old case history of a young prince who manifested symptoms of psychotic depression associated with anorexia nervosa. The treatment of this patient by Avicenna, a Persian physician, set a precedent for some psychotherapeutic ...
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