American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 131
- Number 5
- May 1974
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages499–510Psychoanalysis and behavior therapy developed within separate, contrasting, and seeminingly incompatible scientific/epistemological traditions. Psychoanalysis was founded by clinicians who were trying to "make sense of" introspective self-report data, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.499Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages511–517Cocaine, administered orally to patients with endogenous depressive illness, did not consistently affect vital signs or depressive symptomatology, but it did decrease rapid eye movement sleep and total sleep time. When administered intravenously in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.511Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages518–522The authors studied case records of 27 men who had been diagnosed as having hysterical personality, although they note that the current literature assumes that the diagnosis of hysterical personality applies predominantly to women. They believe that not ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.518Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages523–530When 100 patients were evaluated by a therapist, DIAGNO III (a computer program for psychiatric diagnosis), and the senior author, the computer's and therapist's diagnoses were in agreement in 65 cases; the senior author's diagnoses agreed with the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.523Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages531–534The Community Adjustment Profile System (CAPS) compares a patient's community adjustment prior to treatment with his adjustment after treatment, using a statewide computerized information system. Ten areas of community adjustment are measured by 60 items ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.531Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages535–540The authors identify characteristics of family organization and functioning associated with psychosomatic illness in children—specifically chronic, severe, relapsing asthma—and report on a successful therapeutic approach designed to change these family ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.535Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages541–544Medical science is on the threshold of creating human life through other than traditional reproductive methods. The legal problems associated with cloning, the use of a host mother, or the growth of a fetus in an artificial placenta have not been solved. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.541Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages545–550Systematic observations made in Washington. D.C., documented the epidemic spread of heroin use and its subsequent decline. Major indicators supporting the contention of reduced heroin use include: 1) a stable year of peak heroin use among all treatment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.545Effects of Coresidential Living on the Attitudes, Self-Image, and Role Expectations of College Women
Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages551–554The author interviewed matched groups of college women to study the effects on women of coresidential dormitory life. As compared to those in all-women's dormitories, women in the coresidential setting were found to have more satisfying relationships with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.551Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages555–558As the field of social and community psychiatry continues to expand, psychiatrists are obliged to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on matters of directing and implementing change. The authors describe the role of the psychiatrist as an active ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.555Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages559–562Physicians staffing emergency treatment facilities seldom are required to make hasty judgments regarding pharmacotherapy of drug abuse. Unnecessary morbidity frequently results from the use of barbiturates and major tranquilizers in the emergency room. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.559Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages563–566The authors describe a predominantly Filipino village in Hawaii that underwent drastic economic and social changes without disintegrating. They conclude that with the right ingredients of leadership, community planning organizations, and a sense of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.563Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages567–573The epidemiology of 478 cases of schizophrenia, acute psychosis, and manic-depressive psychosis was examined in Papua New Guinea for the years 1970 through 1973. Factors such as bias, referral habits of doctors, community tolerance, disease, accessibility ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.567Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages573–577This report traces the first year's experience in community psychiatry in a developing country. Malaysia, where a group of psychiatrists decided to offer their services as consultants to community caregivers, including doctors, teachers, police, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.573Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages577–579By showing how the value orientation of the Japanese-American minority population in the United States has successfully related to the Protestant ethic of the American middle class, the authors hope to identify factors that promote the social integration ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.577Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages580–583The authors discuss the verbal behavior patterns of English-speaking Japanese-Americans living in Hawaii in terms of four cultural themes of Meiji-era Japan: 1) a strong sense of gender differences, 2) a concern for hierarchy and status, 3) an emphasis ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.580Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages584–586This paper describes a treatment method for conversion phenomena, reactions that present special technical difficulties. The strategy focuses the patient's attention on the fact that his symptoms are psychologically motivated and reduces opportunity for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.584Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages587–591Nineteen hyperactive school children were treated in an outpatient clinic with imipramine for eight weeks, followed by four weeks of placebo. On the basis of ratings by a child psychiatrist, parents, and teachers, significant improvement was observed in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.587Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages592–595The efficacy of chlormezanone, an infrequently prescribed minor tranquilizer, was tested in a six-week double-blind trial involving 154 anxious outpatients. The results showed that chlormezanone (800 mg./day) was significantly more effective than placebo ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.592Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages595–597Twenty-three former heroin addicts who had been stabilized on 4 to 5 mg. of cyclazocine per day had their dossage increased to 10 to 30 mg. per day. These increases resulted in mild, transient side effects. The narcotic-blocking activity of cyclazocine ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.595Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages598–601In this preliminary study, less than one-third of the treatment programs for drug abusers and narcotic addicts in Pennsylvania were rated as satisfactory. Therapeutic community programs were rated significantly higher than other programs. The authors cite ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.598Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages601–604The community psychiatry training program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a two-year postresidency program leading to a Master of Social Psychiatry degree, has been in existence for more than ten years. The authors describe the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.601Publication date: 01 May 1974
Pages610-a–610In A. L. Halpern's letter to the editor "Involuntary Commitment in Wisconsin" (February 1974 issue, page 229), the reference to the APA Position Statement on Involuntary Hospitalizaton of the Mentally Ill (Revised) (1) was incorrectly cited (by our error) ...
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