American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 130
- Number 6
- June 1973
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages621–630This overview delineates trends in mental health law beginning with early law and proceeding to the present time. The authors discuss such recent mental-health-related judicial decisions and statutory changes as class actions, the right to treatment, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.621Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages631–636Several factors were responsible for a riot on an inpatient treatment unit for delinquent adolescents: individual dynamics of patients and staff, group problems of patients and staff, and issues involving the entire patient-staff group. The unit is viewed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.631Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages637–642Group practice has emerged during the past decade as a major organizational form for the delivery of health care. Psychiatry, however, has been found to be the least inclined of the larger medical specialties toward participation in such groups. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.637Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages643–647A one-year study at West Point revealed that most cadets seen in the mental hygiene service did not have symptoms indicative of a major psychiatric illness; many were diagnosed as having adjustment reactions. Similar findings have been reported among ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.643Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages648–652In screening an individual for a security clearance, there are two possible categories of mental disorder: one requiring an adverse opinion and the other a favorable opinion in spite of the presence of such a disorder. In this study of 85 evaluations, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.648Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages653–657The author surveys various issues related to continuing education in psychiatry, including the delineation of "credentialing" as a stimulus to the kind of quality control that the health care system seems to be moving toward. He considers the patient-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.653Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages658–662Questionnaire evaluation of a recently developed training experience within an overall program designed to prepare psychiatry residents to become better teachers revealed that the project was popular with students, resident teachers, and the college ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.658Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages663–666The author discusses the establishment and training program of a Navajo school for medicine men and his involvement in it. From a psychiatrist's point of view, he describes the nature of the curative ceremonies and a few of what he perceives as their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.663Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages667–669A study of the developmental history of psychiatry in Korea is instructive since in Korea the forces of tradition (particularly shamanism, folk medicine, and religion) and the forces of modernization are sensitively reflected.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.667Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages670–673Empirical studies of the treatment of schizophrenia show the unequivocal ameliorative effects of psychoactive drugs. No comparable effects have been claimed for psychotherapy. As a result, psychotherapy has tended to be negated as a viable therapeutic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.670Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages674–677The authors discuss a current NIMH program whose purpose is to study the empirical knowledge of senior psychotherapists who treat schizophrenic patients and to translate this knowledge into potential research data. Such data, it is hoped, may add a new ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.674Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages677–681The author discusses the current controversies over the psychotherapeutic treatment of schizophrenics that have come out of an NIMH program involving experienced clinicians. The controversies concern where to focus content, what techniques to employ, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.677Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages682–684Twenty-four chronic "refractory" schizophrenic patients were removed from a large aftercare clinic and randomly placed into one of two smaller clinics meeting biweekly. Both groups had the same therapist and both clinical settings attempted to provide ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.682Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages685–688Routinely treated schizophrenics, who on admission were randomly assigned to a diet free of cereal grains and milk while on the locked ward, were discharged from the hospital about twice as rapidly as control patients assigned to a high-cereal diet. Wheat ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.685Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages689–692A double-blind comparison of mesoridazine and chlorpromazine with 91 newly admitted, acutely psychotic patients showed that symptoms grouped in the following composites improved significantly more in the mesoridazine patients than in the chlorpromazine ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.689Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages695–699Preliminary findings suggest that levels of norepinephrine metabolites, particularly 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG), excreted in urine may provide biochemical criteria for classifying at least some types of depressive disorders and possibly also ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.695Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages699–702This study tested the hypothesis that differences in both length of abstinence and demographic characteristics would be found between alcoholics who have dreams about drinking (DD group) and those who do not have such dreams (NDD group). The DD group was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.699Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages702–706In a previous study the authors demonstrated a significant association between depersonalization and anxiety; in the present one they replicate this finding with an additional 155 patients and also delineate the close association of depersonalization with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.702Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages707–708Animal studies have indicated that marijuana has both a depressive and an excitatory effect on the central nervous system. Since drug users occasionally combine marijuana and amphetamines, a study was performed to determine whether the two drugs have an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.707Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages709–710The backgrounds of individuals who had used heroin fewer than five times and those who had used it six or more times were studied to determine if there were any significant differences. The subjects were Navy enlisted men who were given an anonymous ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.709Publication date: 01 June 1973
Pages711–714The author demonstrates, through case examples, how geriatric patients can be integrated into a general hospital's intensive therapeutic milieu program. He points to the need for further investigation of the advisability of segregating these patients from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.711Publication date: 01 June 1973
Page739This statement was approved by the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association at its December 8-9, 1972, meeting, upon recommendation of the Council on Research and Development. It was prepared by the Task Force on Confidentiality of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.739Publication date: 01 June 1973
Page740This statement was approved by the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association at its December 8-9, 1972, meeting, upon recommendation of the Council on Medical Education and Career Development. It was prepared by the Task Force on College ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.740Publication date: 01 June 1973
Page741The American Medical Association asked APA to join other organizations in approving this joint statement. The statement was approved by the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association at its meeting on February 23, 1973. As of the end of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.6.741Past Issues
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