American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 128
- Number 6
- December 1971
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages688–694The authors found that 11 of the 26 items of the Manic-State Rating Scale characterized common elements of mania in 12 manic-depressive patients and that these items were highly correlated with independent ratings of change in the severity of mania. Eight ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.688Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages695–699An American Indian religion uses significant quantities of peyote, a hallucinogenic plant containing mescaline. Since there have been many reports of serious emotional disturbance caused by similar drugs, the rate of such illness in this population was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.695Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages700–704The family backgrounds of a group of adolescent diabetics were compared with those of a matched group of nondiabetic chronically ill adolescents; both groups were predominantly from a low socioeconomic level. The diabetic group was found to have a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.700Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages705–711The differential effect of the menstrual cycle on psychiatric emergencies was assessed by evaluating a representative female sample of emergency room psychiatric patients intermittently over a one-year period. The results showed that the menstrual cycle ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.705Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages712–717The author traces the dependent mother-child interaction that develops during the child's infancy and results in a critical social deficit for the child. Most of the 13 children studied did not improve with outpatient therapy but did benefit from short-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.712Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages718–721In dynamic psychotherapy diagnostic and prognostic criteria are necessary in order to determine the kind of therapy best suited to a patient's idiosyncratic needs. Linked with these needs, and thus one important criterion, is a patient's motivation for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.718Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages722–727The authors describe a project involving the provision of mental health consultation services to the staff of a radio station. Starting out with a focus on interpersonal relations within the staff, it progressed to community involvement, with the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.722Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages728–734The author recalls this year's anniversaries of events and individuals prominent in the history of medicine, psychiatry, and psychology and briefly examines their practical or theoretical contributions to the field.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.728Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages735–739In the course of a marriage research project, 44 couples were studied in which one spouse had been diagnosed as psychotic. Dispelling the commonly held assumption that the marriages of psychotic individuals are always chaotic and unrewarding, many couples ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.735Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages740–744The family planning knowledge, practices, and attitudes of 21 hospitalized women were investigated. The sample was characterized by frequency of divorce, separation, marital disharmony, and unwanted pregnancies. Twenty-six unwanted pregnancies were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.740Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages745–748The author describes the hysterical personality and hysterical psychosis and provides some examples, from the literature and from his practice, of the occurrence of hysterical psychosis in response to disrupted object relations, particularly in the case ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.745Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages748–754The author studied 40 women who presented themselves for consultation concerning an unwanted pregnancy. He believes these women were victims of long-standing pathological depressive practices, of which exposure to pregnancy was a symptom. By means of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.748Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages755–760The authors report a study of 15 pregnant teen-age girls aimed at describing their characteristics, identifying the forces contributing to the pregnancy, and delineating the girls' special treatment needs. Among the most consistent findings were chaotic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.755Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages763–766Supportive therapy is the Cinderella of psychotherapies. Considered a simple-minded endeavor, it seldom evokes theoretical conceptualizations, and the neophyte psychiatrist is usually left to develop his own techniques intuitively. The author points out ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.763Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages766–770The authors administered a questionnaire concerning mental health and functioning to freshmen at a state university. They found a relationship between students' self-ratings for depressive symptoms and their academic performance in the semester following ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.766Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages771–774A psychiatric triage unit is economical and efficient in treating large numbers of patients with a small number of staff members. While such programs usually have a high turnover in personnel, they allow for the rapid treatment of many patients and, when ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.771Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages774–777The authors formulated a plan for treating alcoholic servicemen. After a brief period of detoxification, patients were encouraged to have contact with the Mental Hygiene Consultation Service on an outpatient basis; disulfiram and Alcoholics Anonymous were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.6.774Publication date: 01 December 1971
Pages778–781The authors studied seven children with either pavor nocturnus or somnambulism, or both, in an attempt to find a method of treating these sleep disorders. Each child received imipramine orally at bedtime for a minimum of eight weeks. In all seven patients ...
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