American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 128
- Number 8
- February 1972
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages919–926It seems evident that forthcoming changes in the health care system will include the development of health maintenance organizations. Prepaid group practice plans, a prototype of the HMO, have usually offered only modest mental health benefits, although ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.919Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages927–932Most efforts that have been made to reverse the effects of isolation on monkeys have been unsuccessful. The authors report on successful rehabilitation through the use of "therapist" monkeys. The therapists, three months younger than the isolate monkeys, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.927Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages933–938A five-year survey of an entire island population identified psychiatric patients and others experiencing "parapsychiatric events"—jail sentences, premarital pregnancy, auto license withdrawal, chronic alcoholism, etc. The most notable finding was the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.933Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages939–945The authors performed a systematic diagnostic review of the records of all twin pairs with a psychotic diagnosis in the Veteran Twin Registry. They found 274 pairs of twins (313 individuals) in which one or both were "clearly" schizophrenic, a frequency ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.939Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages946–951Psychiatry should be more deeply concerned about the quality of life than any other medical discipline. The population explosion already threatens the quality of life on this planet. On the individual level, the forced arrival of an unwanted, unloved ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.946Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages952–957On March 11, 1970, Hawaii became the first state to make abortion a personal matter to be decided between a woman and her physician. Within six weeks the authors were urgently consulted by two hospitals regarding the acute psychological reactions their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.952Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages958–964An emergency situation brought about the release of a large number of chronic patients from a state psychiatric hospital. The authors studied a random sample of these patients to determine how many remained out of the hospital when the emergency was over ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.958Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages965–969Theological or pastoral consultants may aid the work of chaplains and of clinical pastoral education programs and interpret their meaning within the hospital or mental health center. But they may be able to do more than that: bring new dimensions to case ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.965Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages970–978The author summarizes the English language literature on ancient, modern, and recent Chinese psychiatry for psychiatrists traveling to mainland China and others interested in cross-cultural psychiatry. Practices and beliefs regarding the etiology, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.970Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages978–984The author discusses changes in race relations in the United States during the last 20 years and ways they have affected psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Of particular importance are: emergence of new black consciousness and surfacing of anti-white anger ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.978Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages984–988The hostility of the Arab collectivity toward Israel is governed by two key emotions inherent in the Arab culture. Their defeat by Israel brought them shame, which can only be eliminated by revenge. Arabs fear domination and thus a strong Israel, but ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.984Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages988–992The author describes Israel's social structure and discusses some of its problems. Israeli society is based on a pioneering ideology, which is a source of strength and also of conflict as the nation evolves into a consumer culture. Waves of heterogeneous ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.988Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages992–997Overseas living complicates the tasks of child rearing in unique ways. Some complications may result in overt psychiatric disorders, others in character distortions of varying degrees. Many of them can be avoided, minimized, or resolved through ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.992Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages998–1002The author discusses some of the factors that have affected the population distribution of Alaska Natives, particularly the recent population explosion and the skewing toward youth. Of prime importance is the role played by the government's system of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.998Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages1005–1009The emotional distress reported on the 64-item Patient Symptom Checklist by 133 anxious neurotic outpatients participating in a four-week drug trial was compared with that of 135 nonneurotic gynecological patients. Highly significant differences existed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.1005Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages1009–1012The authors discuss two patients who self-enucleated during psychotic episodes. Both patients had had sexual experiences that they believed to be sinful and a history of LSD use. The authors hypothesize that the patients needed to assuage their guilty ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.1009Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages1012–1013Individuals have recently abused antihistamines in order to obtain hallucinogenic-like effects. While toxic reactions may result from such abuse, the authors cite two cases in which they did not. The authors conclude that dosage may be a critical factor ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.1012Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages1014–1017The authors discuss two theoretical constructs, group cohesiveness and exposure to hostility, in relation to group psychotherapy. Three hypotheses that link cohesiveness and hostility to treatment outcome were tested with data derived from a group ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.1014Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages1017–1019Two social values tests were given to young, middle-class drug abusers and to a control group of non-drug users to determine whether drug users rejected typical middle-class values significantly more often than non-drug users. The drug users rejected ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.1017Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages1019–1022A great need exists for information on the morbidity rates of diseases, especially of psychiatric disorders. The author describes a mathematically based model currently being used in the USSR in which physicians are required to register each patient. It ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.1019Publication date: 01 February 1972
Pages1028-a–1028Page 727 of the December 1971 issue of the Journal contains an error in "Answers to Questions of the Month." The answer to Question 1 should be "E" instead of "B."
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