American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 130
- Number 5
- May 1973
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages521–528The psychiatrist of tomorrow, while retaining his hardwon expertise in psychodynamics and psychotherapy, will be considerably more of a neurobiologist, endocrinologist, behavioral scientist, even mathematician, than is common today. He will be expected to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.521Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages529–531Liberalism once nourished the growth of an enlightened humanism upon the rigid constructs of analytic psychiatry. The New Left promulgates definitions of psychiatrists that are inimical to the basic postulates of psychiatry. They involve the nature of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.529Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages532–535The authors describe the development and operation of a comprehensive alcoholism program at Fort Benning, Ga., that might serve as a model for community alcoholism treatment. The factors that seemed especially important in the success of the Fort Benning ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.532Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages536–539The author discusses sex reassignment in men. He points out that since 1953, when the procedures were first publicized, attitudes toward granting "sex change" have become increasingly liberal, resulting in a dearth of knowledge about the number of men who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.536Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages540–542The author describes the use of a playroom setting for diagnostic family interviews in which play therapy and family interviewing techniques are incorporated. By using this method the diagnostic team can accumulate valuable diagnostic data on the family, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.540Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages543–548Following a four-week control period, 64 nursing home patients receiving doxepin, other psychoactive drugs, or no medication were placed on an alcohol regimen of beer or wine in the ward or in a simulated pub setup. The alcohol produced significant ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.543Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages549–553Psychiatric ratings of ten schizophrenic patients whose native language was Spanish disclosed more psychopathology when the patients were interviewed in the English language than when they were interviewed in Spanish. Some evidence suggested that there ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.549Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages554–558The authors describe the means used in Pima County, Arizona, to unify and coordinate the policies and procedures of a state hospital system and a community mental health system in order to provide more effective delivery of mental health services at the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.554Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages559–562The author describes some of the changes that have taken place in undergraduate medical education in the past ten years and indicates some of the areas that will probably be touched by further change. Since these changes increase the need to develop a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.559Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages562–565To investigate the relevance of various components of psychiatric teaching to the later practice of medicine, the authors asked 126 medical students to rate their perceptions of clinical psychiatric work and to assess their view of psychiatry before and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.562Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages565–567Psychiatry in its teaching activities has the obligation to develop effective ways of bridging vast theoretical, empirical, and philosophical gaps that exist between nonpsychiatric physicians and biological scientists (without backgrounds in behavioral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.565Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages568–570The authors compared the performance of different classes of medical students on an examination using videotaped clinical material. Although the examination was designed to test some aspects of clinical learning, the principal finding was that students ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.568Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages571–574The functionally organized curriculum permits the integration of psychiatry into most of the courses that comprise the first two years of medical school. Rather than presenting psychiatry to the student as a separate discipline or centering the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.571Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages574–578The authors describe a course for teaching medical interviewing skills to medical students. Course components included a programmed manual, observing a skilled interviewer, role-playing exercises, programmed medical interviewing films, and interviewing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.574Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages579–581The author describes a method for teaching a communication skill (interviewing) to medical undergraduates. In addition to the use of closed-circuit television, feedback from instructors and peers was encouraged. The author outlines students' reactions to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.579Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages582–585Evaluation of a new teaching program suggests that second-year medical students can be taught psychiatry with a multimedia combination of filmed interviews with patients, an inventory of critical symptoms, a diagnostic chart illustrating clustering of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.582Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages588–592In case law, defendants suffering solely from amnesia who are otherwise competent to stand trial are generally found to be competent. However, temporary, treatable amnesia may warrant a finding of incompetency. The authors review current concepts of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.588Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages592–595Since many patients in methadone maintenance treatment programs have legal problems, the authors suggest that such programs employ an attorney to help them. They discuss the attorney's role in allaying patients' anxieties about the legal system, in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.592Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages595–598Data on drug assignment from patients' case records were used to: 1) derive a computer formula for assignment to one of three major drug categories, 2) compare the results from this formula with those from a previous formula using prototype data, and 3) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.595Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages599–601The authors studied the use of alcohol by a sample of narcotics addicts (N=140) and by a sample of nonaddict nonalcoholics (N=100). They found that the addicts' use of alcohol prior to their use of heroin significantly exceeded that of the normal sample. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.599Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages601–603A technique is described that enables a physician to determine a patient's lithium dosage requirement on the basis of a single blood sample collected 24 hours after the administration of a 600 mg. priming dose of lithium. The authors discuss the basis of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.601Publication date: 01 May 1973
Pages603–605Twenty-six agitated acute schizophrenic patients in a state hospital received intramuscular injections of either piperacetazine or chlorpromazine. Three rating scales were used to assess the effects of the drugs. Both drugs were found to be effective in ...
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