American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 129
- Number 1
- July 1972
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages17–26The 82 surviving crew members of the U.S.S. Pueblo were evaluated psychiatrically 48 to 72 hours after their release from North Korea. Slightly more than half the crew admitted to experiencing significant anxiety or depression during captivity. Factors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.17Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages27–31The author discusses how normally positive circumstances in the treatment process—family, therapist, and hospital—can unite to obstruct the progress of the intractable female patient. This patient's hospitalization should be comparatively brief; her ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.27Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages32–37The Regional Alcoholism Systems Project (RASP) was undertaken as the first step in developing a comprehensive alcoholism program for a region of North Carolina. One of the first such programs to employ a systems approach, it began in 1969 and after design ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.32Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages38–43A comparison of the psychological and intellectual development of children whose parents were mentally ill and children of normal parents disclosed significant differences between the two groups. The authors believe the former group should be viewed as a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.38Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages44–47The antidepressant effects of lithium carbonate were evaluated in a group of 52 hospitalized depressed patients, using a longitudinal double-blind design that involved alternating drug and placebo periods in the same patient. Thirty-six of the 52 patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.44Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages48–53A six-month study of 200 Iranian women taking oral contraceptives showed only a 12-percent success rate among those who themselves assumed responsibility for taking the pills but a 93 percent success rate among those whose husbands dispensed the pills to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.48Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages54–58The author feels a systematic approach to oral Board examinations will allow candidates to understand the examination process and perhaps to learn more while preparing for it and will help examiners with their difficult charge of judging a colleague's ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.54Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages59–62The authors compare the bases of the treatment of mental illness by native healers and by psychiatrists. They describe the types of mental illness treated by the native healers of Bali and their methods of treatment. The authors also point out some of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.59Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages63–68The author explores issues faced by clinicians trained in child guidance as they adapt their skills to the more broadly based orientation of school mental health consultation. He cites examples showing how establishment and maintenance of such services ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.63Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages69–74Data on homicides were analyzed by computer to determine whether a relationship exists between the lunar synodic cycle and human emotional disturbance. A statistically significant lunar periodicity was demonstrated for homicides committed in Dade County, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.69Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages74–77Fifty-two outpatients with the main target symptom of anxiety with accompanying depression were randomly assigned to receive either doxepin or placebo in a double-blind study for four weeks. The doxepin group improved significantly on global ratings at ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.74Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages78–81The effectiveness of injectable chlorpromazine was compared with the effectiveness of injectable haloperidol with highly agitated, acute psychotic patients and chronic patients with acute exacerbations. While both groups improved, haloperidol effected a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.78Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages82–84Little attention has been paid to the utilization of time by professionals in health programs. The author attempts to measure how these personnel use their time and tries to identify which kinds of patients are high- and low-time utilizers. He suggests ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.82Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages85–89The author interviewed 200 unmarried women from diverse backgrounds who carried their pregnancies to term. Defective ego functioning was present in many of these women. Other factors that they had in common were repression of and denial of interest in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.85Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages89–92Data on 343 patients admitted to the Partial Hospitalization Service of the Lincoln Community Mental Health Center, New York City, over a two-year period indicate that the presence of this service cut admissions to the state hospital by two-thirds. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.89Publication date: 01 July 1972
Pages92–95The authors describe their experience with a training device through which a supervisor is able to give instructions to a beginning psychotherapist by using a transmitter broadcasting to a receiver placed in the therapist's ear. Instant communication with ...
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