American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 130
- Number 12
- December 1973
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1309–1318This overview presents a selected survey of psychiatric research trends in the United States from 1963 to 1972. The principal sources for the survey were articles published in the American Journal of Psychiatry and the Archives of General Psychiatry, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1309Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1319–1322Heavy smokers and light smokers of marijuana were compared for general psychological health, stable personality traits, changes in personality induced by long-term use of marijuana, effects of multiple drug use, and the "amotivational syndrome" that is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1319Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1323–1326In order to provide emergency psychiatric hospitalization for disturbed persons who refuse treatment while at the same time protecting their civil liberties, New York State has instituted a system of court-ordered psychiatric examinations. The authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1323Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1327–1332To establish the feasibility of using computers to interview suicidal patients, the authors developed a computer program, a mathematical prediction model, and a "subjective" data base; computer interviews were then administered to 22 patients. The authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1327Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1333–1337On the basis of personal observations made during a recent tour of the Soviet Union and on an investigation of the literature on Soviet psychiatry, the author presents a brief description of psychiatry in the USSR, a comparison of the Soviet and American ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1333Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1338–1341A number of writers have advanced the opinion that it is beneficial to a patient to have a therapist of the same ethnic background. The authors point out that this may lead to "blind spots" that prevent the therapist from seeing the irrationality of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1338Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1342–1345An intensive survey of the residents at one psychiatric training center revealed their views on a variety of personal and professional issues not previously studied in the literature. The authors investigated the residents' achievement levels, training ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1342Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1346–1350The author recalls this year's anniversaries of events and individuals prominent in the history of medicine, psychiatry, and psychology and briefly examines their practical or theoretical contributions to the field.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1346Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1351–1354In 1878 Dr. Eugene Grissom examined a number of forensic and reform issues concerning psychiatry and attacked a colleague who had been critical of the profession. The ensuing confrontation between the two seems particularly significant today. Both from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1351Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1355–1359Manic-depressive illness and the Xg blood group, a genetic marker located on the X chromosome, showed measurable linkage in successive generations of six families. These data suggest that a dominant X-linked factor is involved in the transmission of manic-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1355Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1359–1361Samples of the nondialyzed platelets of l4 pairs of monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia were assayed for their ability to enzymatically form the hallucinogen dimethyltryptamine. The schizophrenic twins had higher mean levels of enzyme activity ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1359Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1362–1367In response to both insulin-induced hypoglycemia and the ingestion of 500 mg. of L-dopa, unipolar depressed patients (most of whom were postmenopausal women) secreted significantly less growth hormone (GH) than did normal subjects or bipolar depressed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1362Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1367–1369The binding of imipramine to plasma protein was examined in 26 depressed patients. In contrast to the findings of previously published reports, the fraction of the drug that remained unbound was found to vary significantly from one patient to another. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1367Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1370–1376The authors describe the antagonistic effects of physostigmine, a centrally acting acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, and methylphenidate, an amphetamine-like stimulant, on manic and schizophrenic patients. In both patient groups, physostigmine increased ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1370Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1379–1380An Arabic man who assassinated a prominent American politician was tested with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory six weeks and five months after the crime. Analysis of both tests by a psychiatric diagnostic computer program revealed a schizo-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1379Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1381–1382Two hundred patients with histories of chronic alcoholism and recent bouts of heavy and uncontrolled drinking were treated for alcohol withdrawal symptoms through the use of chlordiazepoxide and thiamine. One hundred of these patients, chosen at random, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1381Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1383–1385This study of self-destructive behavior in a psychiatric hospital suggests that persons making the most serious attempts are likely to be suffering from a depressive reaction and to make their attempt during the day (particularly in the early afternoon); ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1383Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1386–1389Although many patients with parkinsonism undergo a significant amount of intellectual impairment, several investigators, including the authors, have observed an improvement in intellectual functioning during the first year of treatment with L-dopa. Upon ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1386Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1389–1391Eight subjects who underwent a standardized hypnosis induction procedure before receiving alpha-enhancement training were compared with eight subjects who were given only the alpha-enhancement training. The hypnosis group did not produce significantly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1389Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1391–1394This study (which replicated one conducted a year earlier) found that the use of methadone, both legal and illegal, had increased. The role of the pusher as supplier of illicit methadone declined, while other suppliers, particularly addict friends, became ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1391Publication date: 01 December 1973
Pages1394–1397The family structure in three cases of anorexia nervosa is described. Each parent placed a daughter (the patient) in the position of his or her own mother, toward whom neither parent could express hostility. This conflict was focused on the child, ...
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