American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 128
- Number 9
- March 1972
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1043–1056Validation for ethological theories about the origins of human violence and aggression may be sought in certain well-studied forms of behavior. Observations in relation to crime and other forms of violent conduct have given unequivocal answers to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1043Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1057–1066Over the past half century, increased longevity and fertility control have had a marked effect on family structure. Women now devote a smaller proportion of their adult life to the rearing of children; they have also achieved higher levels of education, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1057Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1067–1073The author tests the theories of Freud, Jung, and Adler on the function of dreams against the new facts revealed by laboratory research on sleep and dreams. None of these theories is reinforced and many of their components are disproven by the discoveries ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1067Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1074–1080The authors describe four fantasy themes encountered on psychiatric research wards and note that there are often painful conflicts of duty when the therapeutic approach and research procedures seem incompatible. They present some examples of the adaptive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1074Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1081–1085Thomas Szasz's position that mental illness is a myth is found by the author to involve the following beliefs: 1) the term "mental illness" is universally defined as a biological disease state; 2) because some similarities exist between the mental health ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1081Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1086–1091The authors describe the background and development of a suicide prevention service on an Indian reservation and emphasize the importance of community acceptance and involvement. Characteristics of the patient population are analyzed; most of the patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1086Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1092–1096The authors' four-year examination of the competency for trial issue in Massachusetts suggests that neither the psychiatric nor the legal profession in the state is currently able to deal satisfactorily with the issue. lt is likely that overburdened ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1092Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1097–1102The integration of training in social and community psychiatry into the basic three-year psychiatric curriculum poses a number of issues on which little agreement has been reached. On the basis of his experiences and observations during the past eight ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1097Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1103–1107The author describes some of the identity problems the beginning resident faces when making the transition into residency. He then examines in detail the steps involved in role definition: investiture, correction, and achievement. Along with the process ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1103Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1107–1111The author describes the experience of psychiatric residency training as a five-stage crisis in role transition involving role shock, orientation, trial and error, integration-consolidation, and recapitulation. He defines the crisis as a process involving ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1107Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1111–1115The author reports his findings from interviews with a class of psychiatric residents. He concludes that for the resident, the role that residency training plays in the process of his professional development is very much a function of the types of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1111Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1116–1121The authors describe a psychiatric educational program in which residents would work together as a self-education "corporation." Faculty members would serve as advisory and teaching consultants to provide individualized education that is consistent with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1116Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1121–1126The authors describe a group approach to training first-year residents in which direct observation of patient-therapist interaction, seminars with guest experts, and preceptorship methods are combined. In these groups of six to eight residents, meeting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1121Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1126–1127The evaluation of general psychiatric skills is a different process from the evaluation of psychotherapeutic skills. Mini-boards, similar in format to the certification procedure of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, test the resident's skill ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1126Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1132–1136The authors studied the incidence of alcoholism in children who had an alcoholic biologic parent but who were raised by nonalcoholic parent figures and in children who did not have an alcoholic biologic parent and who were raised by alcoholic parent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1132Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1136–1140Women of different races and educational backgrounds were compared to determine their utilization of mental health services and their satisfaction with them. As suspected, the distribution of services is uneven, with white women and women who were more ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1136Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1140–1145This pilot study attempted to explain why psychiatrists differ in their decisions regarding treatment. Differences over the usage of phenothiazines were best explained by differences in diagnosis; differences in psychotherapy were best explained by the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1140Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1145–1147Most indexes of anxiety are based on one of four principal techniques; projective estimates, self reports, objective ratings by other persons, and objective behavioral indexes. The author measured 24 adolescents on all four techniques over a three-week ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1145Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1147–1149The authors make a preliminary report on the use of the air-fluidized bed in treating patients with disabling insomnia. They believe the bed helped the majority of their patients by providing a physically comfortable environment, in terms of weight ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1147Publication date: 01 March 1972
Pages1149–1153In order to determine whether or not tea is an exogenous source of DMPEA, the authors studied three normal adult tea drinkers. They analyzed the DMPEA content of the urines and examined the effect of tea and added DMPEA on DMPEA excretion levels. They ...
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