American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 131
- Number 8
- August 1974
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages845–851The author describes some of the changes that have come about in the attitudes and behavior of young adults over the past two decades, giving his opinions of the causes for their concern and their methods of expressing it. He particularly emphasizes the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.845Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages852–857The clinical use of operant learning approaches demands a full understanding of a patient's behavioral organization and the many experiences that constitute reinforcement. This involves considering the appropriate functional response classes, the "core" ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.852Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages858–862When a patient capable of articulate reporting was prepared with deep and surface electrodes, correlations were demonstrated between activity at certain brain sites and pleasurable or painful affect. Moreover, a functional relationship was shown between ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.858Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages863–866The authors tested the pharmacokinetic interaction between benzodiazepines and nortriptyline in five patients. Each patient was tested during periods of treatment with neuroleptics, diazepam, and chlordiazepoxide, and in a drug-free control period. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.863Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages867–869Varied adverse physical reactions to narcotic drugs are being reported increasingly in the medical literature. The findings indicate a morbid physical prognosis for the habitual narcotic user. The author reviews the literature on such complications and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.867Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages870–874The authors describe four postpartum syndromes that are not often recognized, including infanticide and child battering, the grandmother reaction, the adoptive mother reaction, and the father reaction. These reactions derive from experiences involving the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.870Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages875–878The trend toward community treatment of mental patients outside of institutions has resulted in changing concepts of mental health care. The author analyzes three models for mental health centers—medical, nonmedical, and antimedical—and suggests that a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.875Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages879–881The authors attempt to conceptualize a pattern of defense against the depressive process that changes with age. They enumerate several forces that oppose or promote these defensive operations, resulting in three levels at which the depressive process ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.879Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages882–886The authors observed patterns of family interaction frequently encountered in 60 cases of child abuse. The maltreatment syndrome is described as the end result of three potentiating factors: the abuse-prone personality of the parent; characteristics of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.882Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages887–891The authors report findings from an investigation of cognitive and attentional development in 53 children of psychotic mothers and their matched controls demonstrating the presence of developmental lag in the high-risk children and suggesting the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.887Computer EEG and Auditory Evoked Potential Investigations in Children at High Risk for Schizophrenia
Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages892–900Computerized EEG and evoked auditory potential investigations demonstrated that the patterns of a group of children at high risk for schizophrenia (children of schizophrenic parents) had statistically significant differences when compared with those of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.892Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages903–906In a departure from traditional personality-oriented traffic accident research, the authors assessed, through a self-administered questionnaire, the role of transitory life changes and subjective stress among 532 general and alcoholic male drivers. They ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.903Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages907–909This paper presents case material on three male siblings with a transsexual syndrome. It is probably the first such case recorded in the United States and may lead to the discovery of other such sibships, which could be of particular value in assessing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.907Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages910–913Four cases of dyskinesia attributable to treatment with 4-20 mg. of haloperidol daily for more than a year are reported. Two cases involved temporary oral-facial dyskinesias and the others a more persistent complex mixture of neurological features. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.910Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages913–915The authors present case material on eight patients who abused bromide drugs and also, with one exception, alcohol. Six were white housewives. They discuss the clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of bromism and point out the need for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.913Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages915–918The development of a more useful relationship between psychiatry and the law depends upon mutual understanding and solution of common problems. Present training in law for psychiatrists emphasizes acceptance of the status quo. The authors propose a new ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.915Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages918–921This study examined the effect of a residency training program on the services delivered to patients on two psychiatric wards of a general hospital. Data obtained before and after the introduction of the program indicated that screening procedures and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.918Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages922–924Five case reports indicate that the Capgras syndrome, a condition in which the patient believes that a person closely related to him is actually an impostor, is far less rare than has been commonly accepted. The author discusses the psychodynamics, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.922Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages925–926The authors collected data from a research clinic to test the hypothesis that patients with schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness are born early in the year more frequently than would be expected by chance. No evidence of seasonal variation of birth ...
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