American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 128
- Number 2
- August 1971
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages141–146Brief psychotherapy with children has not achieved the same acceptance as this treatment modality with adults. The authors conducted a project, reported previously, in which they compared treatment outcome following brief (eight-visit maximum) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.141Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages147–152This study describes psychiatric evaluations of 147 young men anticipating the draft; the material elicited contributed to a clinical picture of unsuitability for military service. The subjects fell within two broad groups: anxious, depressed, goal-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.147Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages153–157In 1965 psychiatrists in the Soviet Union began an experiment in emergency psychiatric ambulance services. This system has the following advantages: Immediate treatment is provided; physicians rather than police bring patients to the hospital; information ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.153Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages158–163The case histories of two individuals developing hypothyroidism during treatment with lithium carbonate are presented. A review of thyroid function in 19 patients revealed a significant decrease in PBI concomitant with lithium treatment for an average of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.158Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages164–167The authors describe a socialization program for outpatients, most of them chronic schizophrenics, that accepts the patients' regressed state and their need to gratify their exaggerated oral dependent strivings. A total of 39 patients were involved in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.164Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages168–173Delinquent behavior can usually be classified as motivation behavior, the pursuit of understandable goals by illegal means, or— as a response to frustration—maladaptive behavior without a goal. Most delinquents are classifiable as either adaptive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.168Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages174–179A group of 46 children in kindergarten through fourth grade whom their teachers considered to have severe behavior and/or learning disorders were randomly assigned to receive dextroamphetamine or placebo in a double-blind crossover design. D-amphetamine ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.174Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages180–184The author presents the results of a comparison between a standardized interviewing instrument and the traditional free-style medical interview that involved two groups of interviewers. The author's ratings of their conduct of the interviews, their styles,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.180Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages185–188The authors note the acute responses of 68 children who underwent cardiac operations and describe in detail the grossly abnormal reactions of four, discussing the possible predisposing factors in three of the four children. The major normal reactions were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.185Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages189–193This report summarizes present scientific knowledge concerning the connection between marijuana use and health. It describes the subjective and physiologic effects of short-term use, including changes in intellectual and motor performance and acute ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.189Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages194–197The effect of high and low doses of marijuana on behavioral and physiological responses was studied in male medical school volunteers. Short-term memory, reaction time, EEG, and heart rate were significantly affected by the higher dose; time estimation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.194Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages198–204The authors compared six heavy and six casual smokers of marijuana, using placebo, a fixed dose of marijuana, and a self-selected ad lib dose. The subjects showed a modest decrease in perception and psychomotor task performance with both types of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.198Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages204–207A Senate subcommittee has tried to implicate the use of marijuana in the My Lai episode. Stirred by this, the mass media have given sensational attention to the use of marijuana by U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam. Reviewing the considerable professional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.204Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages207–212The authors questioned 1,063 future physicians at four medical schools in different geographic regions of the United States concerning their attitudes toward marijuana and its use. Their results indicated that past use of cannabis ranged from 17 percent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.207Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages213–216A questionnaire study of 42 randomly selected young men who used marijuana revealed that about 90 percent had experienced minor changes in perception (seeing colors or objects as more intense); about half had experienced major perceptual changes (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.213Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages220–224The authors' follow-up study of patients seen in a psychiatric emergency room revealed that six percent (four times as many as in the general population) of the patients had died. No deaths were known to be due to suicide. Deaths among alcoholics (with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.220Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages224–227A study of offenders' attitudes toward enforced group psychotherapy revealed that positive attitudes about the experience were correlated with treatment failures. Patients who said the group was helpful were rearrested more often than those who complained ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.224Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages227–229The author conducted a survey of patients and of psychiatric residents who participated in daily group medical rounds. The group method, when compared with individual doctor-patient contact, insures daily contact, saves time, and utilizes the observations ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.227Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages229–230The author's survey of psychiatry department chairmen in the United States disclosed that a large majority regard certification in psychiatry by the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and England as roughly equivalent to certification by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.229Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages230–232By making mutual needs explicit, particularly when one is dealing with deprived and dependent people, it is possible to free the recipient of guilt and the donor of illusions. Candor concerning expectations enhances the self-esteem of those who give and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.230Publication date: 01 August 1971
Pages232–234Racial prejudice is alleged to have psychological benefits in therapy: a white paranoid patient can identify with an "oppressed" black therapist. It is also said to arise during the oedipal phase of development, serving as a protective mechanism against ...
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