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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 131
  • Number 7
  • July 1974

Article

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages761–764

The goal of psychiatric treatment is to restore the patient to a reasonable state of mental health. Hospitalization is often considered to be an unnecessarily expensive component of a total treatment program. In our zeal to reduce expense, many patients ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.761

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages765–768

The justification for legal commitment of the mentally ill has come under increasing public and professional scrutiny. While there have been few abuses or errors, certain types of problems are more likely to be reflected in unmerited hospitalization. This ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.765

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages769–774

Fifty-five young adults hospitalized for mental illness were followed up 10 years after their discharge as a sequel to three earlier follow-up studies. The majority of subjects were still poorly adjusted. The area of greatest competence was in school and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.769

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages775–779

The author discusses a study done by a group of researchers sponsored by a grant to Ralph Nader. The study focused on the community mental health centers program of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). It finds fault with the discrepancy ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.775

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages783–787

Historically, the status of mental health services in the United States has depended upon the economic stability of the nation; much of the financial support of these programs has come from government sources. Since current budget reductions have somewhat ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.783

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages788–791

The process of evaluating the professional competence of trainees in the mental health field is accompanied by complexities that are more extensive than in other professional fields. The authors draw on personal experiences with mental health trainees to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.788

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages792–797

This study of coping strategies reports on interviews with 19 survivors of Nazi concentration camps. The subjects, relatively healthy survivors who were not severely psychiatrically disabled, were interviewed in Jerusalem and the San Francisco Bay area. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.792

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages798–802

By means of a questionnaire, the author studied hospitalized mental patients' perceptions of the factors contributing to their illness in terms of the economic, family, and social problems they experienced. Childhood problems of all types were reported ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.798

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages803–807

The authors studied ego defense patterns longitudinally in 36 hospitalized manic-depressive patients using the Ego Profile Scale. Hypochondriacal and somatization defense patterns were found to be more prominent in unipolar patients at times of stress, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.803

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages808–812

The authors designed a study to test the relative efficacy of minimal individual contact versus group therapy, given an equal amount of therapist time allocated to each treatment. One hundred forty-four aftercare patients were randomly assigned to either ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.808

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages813–817

Primatological, ethnographic, and psychiatric data suggest the hypothesis that male dominance facilitates male-female copulatory behavior while female dominance inhibits it. The author discusses a mother-son pair of rhesus macaques in which two incestuous ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.813

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages817–819

A neuroleptic (haloperidol) that, in the doses used, is a specific blocker of dopamine was effective in antagonizing amphetamine-induced symptoms in eight patients. This finding suggests that dopaminergic mechanisms play an important role in amphetamine ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.817

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages820–821

The author presents three case reports supporting the hypothesis that lithium therapy inhibits the effect of amphetamine. He suggests that the pharmacologic mechanisms of action of lithium and amphetamine are directly opposite and that lithium could be ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.820

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages822–824

Modern principles of instructional design were applied by the authors to an undergraduate medical school course in psychiatry with extremely promising results. The authors presented a description of the program design and instructional techniques to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.822

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages825–827

The authors describe a patient who developed acute, disturbing symptoms several months after a spontaneous abortion during early pregnancy. Anamnesis revealed that her symptoms were not the usual symptoms of acute grief but were representative of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.825

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages827–829

The authors studied 2,494 homicides that occurred in Harris County, Tex. (Houston), over a 14-year period in an effort to confirm a recent study suggesting that homicides are significantly related to phases of the moon. They found no significant ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.7.827

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