American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 132
- Number 1
- January 1975
Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages1–10This review of the descriptive literature on borderline patients indicates that accounts of such patients vary depending upon who is describing them, in what context, how the samples are selected, and what data are collected. The authors identify six ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.1Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages11–16The authors assessed by questionnaire the alcohol use of 1,873 U.S. soldiers in the United States and Viet Nam. According to operational definitions based on total ethyl alcohol consumption and several behaviors associated with drinking, 7 percent were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.11Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages17–21The authors studied 109 consecutive admissions to an acute psychiatric unit in a general hospital to determine the relationship of specific sensorimotor impairments to cognitive disturbance. The results indicated a strong but not exclusive correlation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.17Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages22–27The authors describe an effort to develop criteria for utilization review of treatment for suicide attempters. Explicit criteria proposed by a panel of experts as essential determinants for hospitalization of these patients were compared with actual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.22Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages28–32Theory and practice in the management of the dying patient have moved forward in the past two decades. However, the author believes the benefits of this progress have not reached a large segment of the population of dying patients--those individuals who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.28Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages33–38The authors conducted a study in which schizophrenic-like behavioral disturbances were induced in members of a macaque social colony by the chronic administration of d-amphetamine. Animals given the drug showed hypervigilance, hyperactivity, fragmented ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.33Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages39–42Although determinism may permeate human existence, man's moral values raise him above the level of an animal and enable him to direct his own life. The author suggests that psychiatrists should influence the patient to exert his will, make conscious ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.39Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages43–47The authors note that the imminence of national health insurance makes it very important to determine the roles, efficiency, and effectiveness of both the private and the public sectors of mental health care. The difficulties in distinguishing public from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.43Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages48–51The authors discuss the numerous incompatibilities between the clinical research ward, with its emphasis on the collection of baseline and treatment data, and the therapeutic milieu environment, with its emphasis on an open door, team orientation, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.48Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages52–55The author presents a summary of the major evaluation techniques now available and discusses the values and limitations of each. He concludes that only by the use of many evaluation instruments during the resident's period of training can some estimate of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.52Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages56–59The author reviews the recent literature on the psychological aspects of mastectomy, including psychological reactions to the procedure and appropriate intervention strategies. He discusses individual and familial fears and concerns related to mastectomy ...
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Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages63–65The author studied via questionnaire psychiatrists' involvement with older patients in relation to their own ages and the nature of their practices. Older psychiatrists see a higher proportion of older patients, advocate more comprehensive treatment, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.63Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages66–68The authors note that despite a few reports in the literature indicating that saliva lithium levels could adequately replace serum determinations in monitoring patients being treated with lithium salts, this procedure has not received much clinical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.66Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages68–70The authors conducted a study in which 10 patients with recurrent affective disorders who responded completely to long-term lithium therapy but who were otherwise unselected were tested for renal tubular concentrating and acidification ability. Despite ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.68Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages70–73In 1972, the mental health services in the Veterans Administration were reorganized in a manner designed to increase the probability of interdisciplinary collaboration. VA hospitals were urged to form multidisciplinary mental health committees to advise ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.70Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages74–76The authors studied the effects of oral loading with 5-HTP on REM fragmentation in a group of alcoholics who were abstinent following acute ethanol withdrawal. Decreased fragmentation was found in the majority of subjects, and those subjects with low ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.74Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages77–79The author points out that both favorable and unfavorable opinions regarding the value of electroconvulsive therapy have become entrenched in the absence of adequate data. These opinions are discussed in relation to the training, experience, and personal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.77Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages79–80The author present several options for other psychiatrists who wish to avoid taking board examinations and still save face. Although the author states that none of these worked for him, he wishes to present his suggestions to others in the field.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.1.79Publication date: 01 January 1975
Pages81–83The author discusses alternative methods for dealing with folk illness in psychotherapy. Two case reports are presented that describe psychotic Mexican-American patients who were successfully treated with an approach that integrated curanderismo, the ...
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