American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 128
- Number 4
- October 1971
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages401–406The authors describe a method of unit consultation employing a paramedical participant observer that was developed and used successfully in a combat division in Viet Nam. Consultation made the unit's problems legitimate ones for discussion, provided an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.401Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages407–411The authors describe a model unit utilizing the nonphysician as primary inpatient therapist for psychiatric patients in a university hospital. The theoretical basis, administrative structure, training program, methods of operation, and problem areas are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.407Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages412–417The authors believe that community mental health centers must make a commitment to develop primary prevention services for highrisk groups in their catchment areas. Boston State Hospital, in collaboration with its community and other human service ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.412Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages418–423This study of 24 hospitalized adolescent delinquents revealed that the delinquents were well aware of their impulsivity. This awareness was related not to age, sex, race, police contact, or incarceration but to objective measures of impulsivity. In some ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.418Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages424–430Data from a thorough review of the records of 1,154 prisoners in the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., indicated that the psychiatric morbidity within this group was about 20 percent. The bulk of psychiatric effort with the prisoners studied took ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.424Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages431–436The author describes some aspects of his experience as a member of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, particularly how he and psychiatry in general were regarded by his fellow commissioners, the kinds of anxieties prompted ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.431Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages436–445On the basis of his investigations of some aspects of interpersonal bonding in several widely different species and human cultures, the author suggests that high-intensity interpersonal bonding may be a prerequisite for various human behaviors, including ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.436Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages445–450Aggression and violence have a disastrous effect on the learning capacity of deprived children. The author discusses the origins of the anxiety and fear of aggression in these children; an appreciable number carry an excess of traumatic incidents and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.445Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages450–454During the author's two years as an Army psychiatrist, he learned that many relatively normal young men he interviewed had observed or participated in the slaughter of defenseless Vietnamese people. Six psychological, social, and mechanical principles ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.450Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages454–460The general assumption that anger is a manifestation of aggression has influenced all theories about both aggression and anger. The author believes, however, that there are clear distinctions between anger and hostility, a clear derivative of aggression, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.454Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages461–465This article delineates some of the clinical features observed in juveniles who have committed a homicide. Prodromal signs before the act was committed included behavioral changes, "cries for help," use of drugs, object losses, threats to manhood, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.461Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages466–472Conflicts about aggression are among the most significant problems that students encounter. They must face these conflicts within the framework of crucial developmental tasks such as the achievement of identity, intimacy, and maturity. The incorporation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.466Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages475–480In order to determine patterns of alcoholism on the basis of observation rather than drinking histories, the authors conducted three six-week studies in which hospitalized alcoholics were given the choice of drinking or not at frequent fixed intervals. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.475Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages480–483The authors examine the value of community mental health centers, using the San Francisco system as a model. This system shows a reduction in distant state and local hospital use and therefore a reduction in expenditures. The changing pattern of care ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.480Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages483–484One reason for the traditional administration of medication in divided doses is that this is assumed to be safer than administration in single doses. The authors' analysis of clinical and laboratory data from 43 adult patients supports the view that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.483Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages485–488The treatment needs of the posthospitalized chronic schizophrenic have not been successfully met by one-to-one psychotherapy, mostly due to the transference problems in the patient-therapist relationship. The author believes that the group therapy and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.485Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages489–492"Tic convulsif," a bizarre entity, was discovered fortuitously by Gilles de la Tourette. His achievements, however, extend well beyond this eponymic triumph into a broad diversity of fields including literature, social welfare, political reform, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.489Publication date: 01 October 1971
Pages492–493The author discusses the following problems encountered in attempting to establish a milieu treatment program for acute psychiatric patients: tyring to set up a ward culture in the midst of frequent admissions and discharges; the patients' inability to ...
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