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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 131
  • Number 6
  • June 1974

Article

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages623–630

The author reviews the scope, underlying assumptions, and organization of consultation-liaison psychiatry. During the 40 years since their inception, liaison services in general hospitals have played a mediating role between psychiatry and medicine. The ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.623

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages631–635

Self-help treatment programs have emerged as a significant development in the human services for a growing number of populations in need. The author explores their history, range, and prospects for the future as well as their sociological and political ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.631

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages636–640

The authors present evidence that many of the maladaptive behavior patterns labeled as neurotic result from man's retention of archaic responses. This retention is the end product of man's evolutionary history, which has produced a species that, in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.636

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages641–645

The current thrust toward community care in New York State has had a dramatic positive effect as local facilities have actively presented alternatives to long-term hospitalization. But there have also been negative effects, some anticipated and some ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.641

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages646–650

The narcotic antagonist EN-1639A (naltrexone) was studied in 37 heroin addicts and found to be clinically useful, with a low incidence of side effects, lack of toxicity, high degree of acceptability to the patient, and capacity to antagonize the euphoric ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.646

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages651–654

During the 6-month Antarctic winter "night," the 22-man South Pole station is one of the most extreme environments known to man. The authors used this environment as a laboratory to study two discrete behavioral phenomena, "staring" and "drifting." They ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.651

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages655–657

Many schools of psychiatric thought implicate the patient's family in aggravating and even generating his illness. Thus psychiatrists often blame and mistreat the family, through either open hostility or vague innuendo; the family in turn becomes less ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.655

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages658–661

In 1972 the American Psychiatric Association offered its membership a newly revised Psychiatric Knowledge and Skills Self-Assessment Program. The results reported in this paper were based on the performance of 2,394 participants who indicated that they ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.658

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages662–665

The authors present a new model of group therapy for latency-age children that is based on the unique psychic, physical, and social tasks of the latency phase, including cognitive growth, physical mastery, transition to the reality principle, and entry ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.662

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages666–669

As a natural evolution of the community mental health movement of the sixties, the concept of human resources has developed as a service delivery organization in a number of states. Involving varying degrees of fusion of mental health, public health, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.666

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages670–673

This paper examines the frustrations and dilemmas present in maintaining separate schools for Indian children. The diversity of approaches in these schools, the problems of acculturation, and a history of poor individual academic and emotional adjustment ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.670

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages674–677

A review of admissions to a general psychiatric hospital over a 47-year period revealed that the diagnoses of catatonic and hebephrenic schizophrenia decreased markedly, that paranoid schizophrenia, with some variation, remained approximately the same, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.674

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages678–682

The authors examined 26 consecutive patients who had a diagnosis of acute schizophrenia upon admission to an inpatient psychiatric unit of a municipal hospital. Only one patient satisfied research criteria for schizophrenia, whereas half of the patients ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.678

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages682–687

The authors analyzed diagnostic data collected in nine countries in an effort to determine the clinical usefulness of Kurt Schneider's II "first-rank symptoms" (FRSs) of schizophrenia. The study specifically sought to determine whether the prevalence of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.682

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages688–692

This study examines a population composed of schizophrenic and nonschizophrenic patients seen in the psychiarric emergency area of a medical center between May 1972 and July 1972. The authors determined the frequency distribution of their symptoms and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.688

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages695–699

The authors present experimental evidence to support the hypothesis that 2-phenylethylamine (PEA) and its metabolites modulate affective behavior. Values for the urinary excretion of PEA were lower for 71 percent of a group of depressed patients than the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.695

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages699–702

A six-month evaluation of penfluridol, a long-acting oral preparation, was conducted with 50 severely ill schizophrenic patients. After an initial three-month stabiization period, the patients were divided into two equal groups and a double-blind ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.699

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages703–707

The authors investigated abnormalities in the thinking of depressed patients and present some preliminary data on the prognostic value of thought disorder in unipolar depressive illness. They conclude that both content disturbances and formal thought ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.703

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages707–710

In a series of controlled interviews using drugs, patients exhibited less expression of emotion than is usually reported in drug interviews. This remained true even when freer conditions were instituted. The general research ambiance may have inhibited ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.707

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages711–714

Although laboratory tests are useful in some cases, the authors question the value of routine blood studies for every patient who takes psychotropic medication. They report results of a questionnaire distributed to all members of their local psychiatric ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.711

Publication date: 01 June 1974

Pages714–718

Eight patients with serious depression were given 1000 µg. of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) or saline intravenously for three days in a double-blindstudy. All patients then received 1000 µg. of TRH daily for the next seven days. The group receiving ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.6.714

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