American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 131
- Number 6
- June 1974
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages623–630The 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.131.6.623Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages631–635Self-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.131.6.631Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages636–640The 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.131.6.636Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages641–645The 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.131.6.641Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages646–650The 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.131.6.646Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages651–654During 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.131.6.651Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages655–657Many 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.131.6.655Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages658–661In 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.131.6.658Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages662–665The 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.131.6.662Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages666–669As 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.131.6.666Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages670–673This 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.131.6.670Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages674–677A 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.131.6.674Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages678–682The 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.131.6.678Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages682–687The 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.131.6.682Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages688–692This 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.131.6.688Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages695–699The 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.131.6.695Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages699–702A 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.131.6.699Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages703–707The 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.131.6.703Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages707–710In 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.131.6.707Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages711–714Although 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.131.6.711Publication date: 01 June 1974
Pages714–718Eight 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 ...
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