American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 130
- Number 2
- February 1973
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages125–131The main reason for the great discrepancy between the realization of the medical and the social criteria of health as defined by the WHO charter is the disproportion between the knowledge of technical sciences and of human nature. This is relevant to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.125Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages132–140The authors studied the life history and adaptation of marijuana users and nonusers in a randomly selected representative sample of ten percent of the UCLA undergraduate student body. Statistically significant differences were discovered in family and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.132Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages141–145Three female schizophrenic patients receiving a combination of psychotropic agents, including the antiparkinsonian agent benztropine mesylate, developed the central anticholinergic syndrome, consisting of hallucinations, anxiety, short-term memory loss, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.141Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages156–159A landlord-supervised cooperative apartment program—a new type of community residential treatment modality—was developed through the collaborative effort of a state mental hospital, the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare, and citizens as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.156Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages160–164The authors studied a pair of monozygotic twins who became discordant for mental and physical disorders late in life. Differences in the twins' early histories, earliest memories, and reactions to the loss of their mother when they were children suggest ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.160Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages165–170In laboratory experiments with hyperkinetic, untrainable dogs and in a comparison of levoamphetamine, dextroamphetamine, and placebo in children, levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine were found to be approximately equal in calming an aggressive, hostile ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.165Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages171–174The authors describe a simple, rapid method by which patients with any suicidal ideas can determine for themselves and the evaluator what risk actually exists. The patient states how long he is willing to stay alive, without qualification, in the form of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.171Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages175–178The authors conducted a survey of chairmen of departments of psychiatry to determine their attitudes toward community mental health and the extent of their departments' involvement in community psychiatry. Among their findings were: a majority of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.175Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages179–183The author examines the place and meaning of work in contemporary American society, its relationship to the amount and quality of leisure time that is available, and its relationship to the worker's physical and mental health.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.179Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages183–187From a large-scale epidemiologic study of the mental health needs and services of a southeastern county, randomly selected groups of black and white respondents were compared with respect to social and demographic characteristics, symptoms and indices of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.183Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages187–191The authors surveyed a group of 745 public school teachers and compared them with college seniors in regard to a number of topics of concern to society today. They found that the use of drugs was more widespread among teachers than expected and that there ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.187Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages191–196The authors examine the implications of the women's liberation movement for current psychotherapeutic theory and practice in terms of the antifeminine Freudian position, the predominance of male therapists, the concept of role unhappiness as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.191Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages196–200The authors interviewed 74 randomly selected college students in an attempt to determine reasons for black women's lack of involvement in the women's liberation movement. Black female students showed a great concern with blackness and its implications but ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.196Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages200–203Six million children in the United States experience the partial (fatherless) family. This type of family, which appears frequently in lower-class areas, somehow functions as a viable form. It is not a congenial structure for understanding by means of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.200Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages207–210Treating violent patients can evoke countertransference reactions of fear and anger in therapists that may interfere with effective management. The authors present six case reports in which countertransference reactions deleteriously affected the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.207Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages210–212The authors report three cases of children who developed seizures while receiving imipramine treatment for hyperactive-aggressive behavior disorders; all three children had organic brain disease but no previous history of seizures. Two of the children ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.210Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages212–213Sexual impotence resulting from prolonged alcohol abuse may persist even after years of sobriety. The authors believe this problem is neither a psychological nor a hormonal defect but is due to the destructive effect of alcohol on the neurogenic reflex ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.212Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages213–217In a cross-cultural study of depressive symptoms in Afghan patients, the incidence of such "biological" symptoms as depressed mood and loss of appetite, sleep, and libido were similar to the reported incidence of these symptoms in depressed patients from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.213Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages217–219Methaqualone (Quaalude), a nonbarbiturate sedative, was introduced to the American public as a nonaddicting drug with low abuse potential. Unfortunately, it has become the newest drug of abuse. The authors outline the effects of the drug and discuss two ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.217Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages219–221In psychiatry, the concept of participatory management has been developed in the therapeutic community and elsewhere. The industrial management literature reveals that, although scientific management and human relations theorists saw no necessary conflict ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.2.219Publication date: 01 February 1973
Pages239–240This statement was approved by the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association at its April 29 30, 1972, meeting, upon recommendation of the Council on Mental Health Services. It was prepared by the Task Force to Develop a Position Statement ...
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