American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 130
- Number 10
- October 1973
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1065–1070Although the practice of psychiatry was similar in the United States and Britain during the last century, since then their paths have diverged, especially since the Second World War and the institution in Britain of the National Health Service. The major ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1065Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1071–1076Using the Monroe County (N.Y.) Psychiatric Case Register, a stable data source, the authors attempted to determine differences between white and nonwhite suicide attempters, to identify the factors that are associated with self-destructive behavior in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1071A Survey of Physicians' Attitudes and Practices Regarding Erotic and Nonerotic Contact with Patients
Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1077–1081An anonymous questionnaire survey of a random sample of 460 physicians revealed that most psychiatrists, obstetrician-gynecologists, surgeons, internists, and general practitioners did not believe in the efficacy of or engage in nonerotic physical contact ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1077Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1082–1087At the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of Health, the author visited China earlier this year. He describes the structure and organization of the Shanghai Psychiatric Institute, a therapeutic community in which the staff and patients work together in a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1082Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1088–1093A parallel is drawn between several behavioral constellations observed in the evolution of the human amphetamine psychosis and the motor-postural-attitudinal manifestations induced in animals by chronic amphetamine intoxication. On the basis of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1088Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1094–1097Recent studies of learning and memory indicate that new experience is encoded by means of protein synthesis in brain tissue. The author reviews the literature on diet, nutrition, dreams, and REM sleep and finds support for the hypothesis that dreaming is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1094Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1098–1102The problems of Indian boarding schools are examined in the light of both systems theory and data from interviews and questionnaires conducted at one school. The authors conclude that the schools have failed to define their primary task—to educate or to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1098Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1103–1106A patient with air travel phobia was treated by a variety of therapeutic techniques. Initially, intensive reciprocal inhibition similar to implosion therapy was used, with concomitant supportive psychotherapy. Then psychodynamically oriented short-term ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1103Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1107–1111Sixty-eight patients who came voluntarily to a crisis intervention clinic were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Those in the first group received immediate intervention therapy while those in the second were put on a waiting list. By the end of six ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1107Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1112–1117The authors describe a collaborative program between an adolescent psychiatric clinic and a juvenile court that has resulted in the successful handling of otherwise untreatable court-referred adolescents. The approach used in this program has overcome two ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1112Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1118–1122The author presents data about the number and percentage of women in medicine, along with their motivations for entering this profession. She also gives recent data about women in psychiatry: their number, areas of specialization, work settings, hours ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1118Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1123–1127The authors consider some of the issues involved in women's choice of a medical career. The woman medical student has few acceptable role models available to illustrate the variety of possible life and family patterns. In addition, she must cope with the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1123Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1127–1131The APA Task Force on Women was created to study the special issues and problems of women, especially in relation to the practice of psychiatry, and the special concerns of women psychiatrists. In this paper, the author details the specific areas the task ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1127Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1131–1135The author focuses on the problems of the woman resident and draws upon her own experience to illustrate her point that women are not accorded the same consideration as other minorities and that, for women, the residency period may be one of loneliness ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1131Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1139–1141The authors' clinical impression that many depressed patients are admitted to hospitals without having received adequate drug treatment as outpatients was confirmed with a sample of 51 depressed patients. Of these, only 20 percent had received proper drug ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1139Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1142–1144A group of 56 patients with depressive illnesses were administered either a single daily dose or a divided daily dose of trimipramine on a random basis. Results of the treatment showed several advantages for the use of a single daily dose: a trend toward ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1142Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1144–1147This article is the first in a series on the work of the New York City Forensic Psychiatry Clinic, which performs mental competency evaluations of defendants appearing before the New York City Criminal Court. The author describes the clinic's philosophy ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1144Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1148–1150Based on their experience in leading continuing education workshops for various mental health workers, the authors recommend the use of experiential learning techniques in such programs to accomplish attitude change, personal involvement, and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1148Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1151–1152This paper outlines the consensus of a group of career teachers of psychiatry on the elements of a training program that will produce a professional with competence not only as a physician but in the many other roles a psychiatrist must perform. The group ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1151Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1153–1154The author questions the effectiveness of the case conference, a procedure that is widely used in mental hospitals. He suggests modifications in the conduct of the conference that involve telling the group about the amount of time, effort, and money ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1153Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1155–1156The authors conducted an open clinical trial of high doses of parenteral haloperidol in the treatment of 40 acutely excited psychotic inpatients. Their preliminary results suggest that intramuscular haloperidol in doses up to 60 mg. a day is safe, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1155Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages1157–1158The authors found that most of the patients in their study—98 out of 153—did not make or keep their appointments at an outpatient clinic after being evaluated and referred. One year later they were able to obtain information on 51 of these patients and ...
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