American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 128
- Number 5
- November 1971
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages541–546The author believes and attempts to demonstrate that "drug abuse" and "drug addiction" are moral rather than medical problems. The basic issue underlying these problems is: In a conflict between the individual and the state, where should the individual's ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.541Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages547–550The author analyzes "The Ethics of Addiction" and responds to its arguments. He deals briefly with some of the issues underlying the current problem of drug abuse. The accelerated rate of cultural change and our outmoded response to it are considered to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.547Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages551–558A field worker was assigned to a heroin distribution site or "copping area" in a Chicago neighborhood for a period of one year. He identified and monitored 127 different dealers and consumers who were regular visitors to the site. Thirty-four of these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.551Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages559–563The author discusses automated multiphasic health testing (AMHT) and its potential value to psychiatry. He describes screening instruments and techniques being developed and tested at the University of Florida for specific use in AMHT centers. These ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.559Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages564–574When compared to results from tests carried out when they were not manic, patients during mania showed changes in verbal learning and word association patterns. The findings support the hypothesis that a reversible learning disorder occurs during mania ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.564Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages575–582The authors studied the effect of repeated exposure to pornographic material on young men. The 23 experimental subjects spent 90 minutes a day for three weeks viewing pornographic films and reading pornographic materials. Before-and-after measurements on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.575Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages583–589Mutual trust between professionals and community spokesmen is a critical but relatively ignored issue in community mental health. The more usual pathways toward trust are professional-community relationships of paternalism, co-optation, and collaboration. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.583Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages590–595A child guidance center that does not itself handle adoptions has had discussion groups for adoptive parents for several years. The authors describe the program and their increasing awareness of the discrepancies between their observations from the groups ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.590Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages596–601The authors report the experience of themselves and others with the Langner Scale, a 22-item self-rated nzeasure of psychiatric impairment. Noting that there are high correlations between this scale and other psychometric tests that measure aspects of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.596Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages602–606Eight persons suffering from hysterical fits were treated by behavior therapy. In the first phase fits were produced by administering a mild electric shock. In later stages of this phase the patients were conditioned to the termination of the mild shock; ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.602Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages607–609The authors discuss some of the reasons for the lag in developing programs for continuing medical education and suggest that many of these problems could be overcome by combining continuing education more closely with formal education. They present ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.607Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages610–616The author stresses the need for nonpsychiatrist physicians to learn about psychiatry in terms of their own frame of reference. This is also true of medical students, most of whom will not go into psychiatry. He outlines some of the reasons for the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.610Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages617–622The authors present a brief sketch of the changes that have occurred in the teaching of psychiatry and neurology and set forth their reasons for believing that a number of benefits would accrue, both to these disciplines and to the community at large, if ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.617Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages622–627There are three levels of medical workers in Soviet medicine; nurse, feldsher, and doctor, and there are advanced degrees for doctors. On the basis of this multiplicity of levels, the author suggests some adaptations for American child psychiatry: a child ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.622Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages627–632The design, implementation, and first year's experience in the operation of a psychiatry track program for medical students is discussed, with particular attention to the educational objectives of the track; the inclusion of a 12-week multidisciplinary ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.627Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages635–637The author, who believes that humor can be constructive in psychotherapy, describes two cases in which humor furthered the development of insight. Before using humor the therapist should evaluate the strength of the therapeutic alliance, since humor can ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.635Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages638–639The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST), medical histories, and diagnoses were employed to determine the percentage of alcoholics in a general hospital. Of 200 patients, 18 percent of the men and 5.5 percent of the women were diagnosed as alcoholic; ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.638Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages640–643The authors describe a treatment of acute schizophrenia that combines drug therapy and psychotherapy. Patients are rapidly tranquilized by titrating dosage levels of phenothiazines administered every one or two hours against the patient's specific target ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.640Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages643–646A study of 500 psychiatric clinic patients indicated that no psychiatric disorder was free of conversion symptoms. Significant differences in prevalence between patients with and those without conversion symptoms were found for hysteria, antisocial ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.643Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages647–648The author has observed a new clinical entity, the "Staccato syndrome," in connection with teen-age drug abuse. The symptoms resemble schizophrenia except that relationships with peers are maintained. The syndrome is characterized by abrupt staccato ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.647Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages649–651The authors describe the problems of adolescents who gave false information to police about drug abuse in their communities. Such patients were invariably lonely and isolated from their families and peers; their informing gained them immediate response ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.5.649Publication date: 01 November 1971
Pages663-a–663Page 164 of the August 1971 issue of the Journal contains an error in the article " `Coffee and ...': A Way to Treat the Untreatable" by Ruth Masnik, Luigi Bucci, David Isenberg, and William Normand. A line is missing from the first paragraph of the ...
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