American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 131
- Number 11
- November 1974
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1197–1203Power, money, and the welfare of millions of Americans are today entrusted to a handful of psychiatric administrators, many of whom are inadequately trained for their jobs and often become entangled in political controversies that limit their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1197Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1204–1207A survey of 696 subjects revealed that taste aversions may be acquired by a special kind of learning that has previously been demonstrated clearly only in animals. Gastrointestinal illness was associated with acquisition of aversions in 87 percent of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1204Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1208–1212This journal has published few papers on psychodynamic psychotherapy recently—not because of prejudice but because only a few such papers have been submitted. One of the reasons for the paucity of psychodynamic papers is that they usually require lengthy ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1208Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1213–1216The authors report on the nature and progress of the Combined Accelerated Program in Psychiatry (CAPP), now in its fourth year of operation. The program involves three and a half years of undergraduate and two and a half of postgraduate training. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1213Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1217–1220This study examines prospective admission and follow-up variables by comparing 21 psychiatric patients leaving an institutional facility against medical advice (AMA) with 21 control patients. The authors conclude that leaving AMA is not necessarily ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1217Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1221–1224The author presents three cases that demonstrate the phenomenon of depersonalization as a psychological defense in both neurotic and psychotic clinical situations. Organic, general psychiatric, and psychoanalytic theories of the etiology of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1221Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1225–1228The authors studied patterns of corticotropin (ACTH) secretion following single and multiple electrically induced convulsions in the course of treating seven psychiatric patients. All seven patients improved clinically after administration of ECT along ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1225Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1229–1233The author suggests that the high prevalence of psychopathology (as measured by the number of marital problems and emotional problems of adolescents requiring professional care) noted in the American community in Bangkok, Thailand, during 1971-1972 was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1229Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1234–1239The authors systematically reviewed diagnoses in the Veteran Twin Registry and found 62 pairs of twins (69 individuals) in which one or both had affective illness, a frequency of .22 percent (monozygotic [MZ] concordance = 33 percent, dizygotic [DZ] ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1234Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1240–1246Findings from a series of related experiments led to a working hypothesis suggesting that there may be an abnormality in aspects of cell membrane properties that normally regulate the movement of electrolytes across the plasma membrane in a subgroup of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1240Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1247–1250The authors examine the development and effectiveness of a treatment program for alcoholism among American Indians. This program offers the alcoholic Indian both occupational and cultural therapy, including participation in the services of the Native ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1247Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1251–1257The author defines orthomolecular psychiatry as the achievement and preservation of good mental health by the provision of the optimum molecular environment for the mind, especially the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1251Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1258–1262In summary: 1) Are the principles of the orthomolecular hypothesis reasonable and testable? They are reasonable and they would be more testable if more specific. 2) Is there evidence that there are deficits consistent with this theory in some ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1258Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1273–1275Of the psychiatrists responding to this study's questionnaire, 45 percent perceived pharmaceutical advertisements from a randomly selected issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry as showing sexual bias that might negatively influence physicians' ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1273Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1275–1277The authors found that 2 mg. of physostigmine given intramuscularly was effective in reversing acute brain syndromes in two patients who had ingested toxic doses of drugs with anticholinergic properties (amitriptyline alone and an amitriptyline-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1275Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1277–1280The authors interviewed 15 men who used both alcohol and amphetamines. Clinical histories indicated the existence of two types of abuse patterns—one primarily concerned with the effects of amphetamines and the other with the effects of alcohol. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1277Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1281–1282Consecutive admissions over a three-month period to a general psychiatric ward in a large urban medical center were reviewed for the presence of acute organic brain syndrome in patients being treated with disulfiram for chronic alcoholism. Five such cases ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1281Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1283–1286The author administered 194 randomly selected multiple-choice questions from the APA Psychiatric Knowledge and Skills Self-Assessment Program to 65 residents via a computerized response apparatus. The system provides immediate feedback on each question ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1283Publication date: 01 November 1974
Pages1287–1288The authors analyzed scores on the Bates-Zimmerman Social Constriction Scale and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) administered to 132 psychiatric inpatients. Neurotic patients evidenced a higher level of social constriction than did ...
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