American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 129
- Number 5
- November 1972
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages521–531The author believes that adulthood as a developmental period has been conceptually and empirically ignored in the psychiatric literature with but few exceptions. Two studies on the subject are reported: an observational study of psychiatric outpatients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.521Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages532–539In an eight-week double-blind study 61 hyperactive school-age boys were randomly assigned to chlorpromazine, dextroamphetamine, hydroxyzine, or placebo groups. Chlorpromazine and dextroamphetamine, virtually equally effective, were significantly more ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.532Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages540–545Many issues are raised by the use of third-party mechanisms such as health insurance to pay for psychotherapeutic services. These include such questions as confidentiality, diagnostic and reporting practices, the medical versus the nonmedical model, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.540Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages546–552The authors compared 40 women seeking therapeutic abortion with 52 pregnant women who were not requesting abortion. The women in the abortion group complained more frequently of depression, anxiety, insomnia, loss of libido, anorexia, and suicidal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.546Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages562–567On the 200th anniversary of Esquirol's birth, the author discusses his remarkable contributions to psychiatry in the areas of classification and symptomatology, therapeutic principles, teaching, and improvement of legislation concerning the mentally ill.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.562Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages568–573Subcontracts for certain services were awarded two years ago by an inner-city community mental health center to two community organizations that seemed to exemplify the growing spirit of pride that was emerging in the black community. The author describes ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.568Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages574–577This paper presents data from a crisis evaluation questionnaire administered to 50 adolescents admitted to the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center. Analysis of the questionnaire delineated four crisis behaviors—suicidal, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.574Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages578–582The authors describe what is probably the first example of the joining together of all the psychiatric teaching institutions in a metropolitan area to sponsor a teaching program in psychiatry. Involving more than 400 mental health professionals in its ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.578Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages583–589The authors describe a program using the principles and methods of peer confrontation groups—treatment settings for addicts, alcoholics, ex-convicts, etc., in which nontraditional control by the participants is used to try to bring about radical changes ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.583Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages589–595The psychodynamics of quitting smoking were identified from observations of small groups established to study the cessation process. Three major issues emerged: 1) the expectation of failure, 2) the feared loss of control, and 3) the affective ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.589Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages595–600The decisive influence on the theory and practice of Soviet collective psychotherapy came not from psychiatry but from the field of education. Thus a major aspect of it is education and reeducation—employing the powerful influence of the peer-group ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.595Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages600–601The author describes a technique he calls "counter-playing," derived from the role of the alter-ego in psychodrama. The therapist, as the counter-player, mimics the posture and actions of his subject and, after developing empathy for the subject (which ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.600Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages602–605The effect of group psychotherapy on 257 inmates suffering primarily from personality and character disorders in a correctional institution is described. Findings based on parole outcome indicated that patients who had treatment did significantly better ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.602Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages608–612Data were obtained on 35 patients under age 21 from the time they appeared for treatment. All had illnesses compatible with the basic psychological and biological disturbances seen in affective disorders in adults. However, their presenting symptoms were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.608Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages612–616The authors questioned 1,314 physicians (chosen at random from four geographical areas) concerning their use of and opinions about marijuana. Thirty-seven percent had been exposed to marijuana, 25 percent had used it, and seven percent were using it ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.612Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages616–620The authors examined the attitudes of patients and of trainee therapists toward the participation of patients in an examination of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Neither the therapists nor the patients reported any serious untoward ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.616Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages621–623Three patients who were treated with lithium displayed symptoms resembling those of organic brain syndrome when their blood lithium levels were low. All patients' lithium levels were slow to rise. When lithium was stopped, the patients' blood levels began ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.621Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages624–627Since 1959, the University of Nebraska Medical Center has been using two-way closed-circuit television for medical treatment and education, largely in psychiatry. Television has been used to link the medical center with hospitals in remote rural areas, as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.624Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages628–630The authors describe a case of a 41-year-old schizophrenic woman who was treated for water intoxication due to compulsive water drinking. The patient presented in a coma, with convulsions and evidence of congestive heart failure. The authors describe her ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.5.628Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages636-a–636Page 1503 of the June 1972 issue of the Journal contains an error in the article "Research on Student Activism" by Berns, Bugental, and Berns. Under paragraph 6, the last sentence should read: "A higher frequency (56 percent) of activists came from Jewish ...
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