American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 132
- Number 10
- October 1975
Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1005–1012The author finds a constant thread of what Benjamin Rush termed "tristimania" in works of great authors. The madness of art, Henry James's description of the need to transform and metamorphose personal experience by means of prose, poetry, or other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1005Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1013–1017The authors collected detailed histories of illicit drug use in the Army in individual interviews with a stratified random sample of 262 enlisted men at six military posts across the United States. Approximately half of the sample (N equals 128) were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1013Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1018–1022Advances in the diagnosis of recurrent affective disorders and consistently high levels of lithium prophylaxis have made it possible to treat manic-depressive disorders on an outpatient basis. The author describes the experiences and organization of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1018Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1023–1026To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of chlorpromazine in comparison with placebo over a brief period of hospitalization, the authors conducted a double-blind study of the drug in 44 acutely ill schizophrenic patients. These patients had been newly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1023Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1027–1031Concern about increasing rates of unwanted pregnancy, particularly among adolescents, has led to consideration of steps necessary to develop effective intervention programs. In order to reach a young woman for counseling and contraceptive assistance ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1027Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1032–1037The authors compared the amount of discomfort experienced by 18 alcoholic men who chose to drink and 43 alcoholic men who abstained from drinking during a 6-week treatment and research program. They found that the discomfort of the drinkers increased but ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1032Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1038–1044The authors propose a cybernetic model for the formation and maintenance of persecutory delusions. During the formation of persecutory ideation, the threat of loss of control over the self or others interacts with predictions of control from others. This ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1038Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1045–1048The author presents basic differences between the approaches of family therapy and of the individual therapies on three dimensions: personality development, symptom formation, and the approach to producing therapeutic change. Family therapy bases its view ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1045Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1048–1052Although the treatment of borderline patients has attracted increased attention, there is little agreement on the basic nature of the disorder or the proper techniques for its treatment by analytically oriented psychotherapy. The author states that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1048Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1052–1054A six-month follow-up investigation of process and outcome in group therapy was conducted by the authors and patients in two therapy groups. The results indicated that although there were discrete stages in the therapeutic sequence, acceptance was the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1052Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1055–1057Clinical supervision is an important feature of the education of the group therapist. The authors describe the application of a summary written by trainee cotherapists in their supervision. They found that the summary, which is supplied to the patients as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1055Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1057–1061The author uses the analogy of the marketplace to examine the dynamics of the transfer of psychotherapy patients in university clinic settings. The outgoing therapist is the seller, the prospective therapist the buyer, and the patient the commodity--the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1057Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1061–1063A survey of 10 randomly selected clinics indicated that only 1 offered group psychotherapy for preschool children. Reasons given for the lack of such programs resembled the resistances encountered in the authors' clinic. The authors describe the solutions ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1061Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1064–1066Factual and ethical controversies confront physicians in medicine as well as in psychiatry. If psychiatrists can impart a perspective on these controversies and their growth-stimulating quality to medical students and thereby increase their tolerance for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1064Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1067–1071Keeping biochemical determinations and clinical judgements independent, the authors investigated three aspects of the transmethylation hypothesis. They found that 26 acutely schizophrenic patients were no more likely to have bufotenine or N,N-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1067Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1072–1073A 57-year-old man with no personal or family history of manic- depressive disease developed symptoms of hypomania after a cerebrovascular accident and surgical trauma to the brain. The patient responded well to lithium carbonate treatment over a 2-year ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1072Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1074–1076The authors discuss the rationale and functional design for an innovative approach to psychiatric intake decision making, stressing the crucial role of an on-line computer support system. The description of the prototype computer-assisted psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1074Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1076–1078After ingesting street drugs sold as "PCP," "THC," and "methadone," three young men developed schizophreniform psychoses, analgesia, anesthesia, and amnesia for the psychotic state. Except for their unusually long duration of 2 to 4 weeks, these reactions ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1076Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1078–1081The author discusses the interactional process between the chief resident and ward staff, with reference to Bion's theory of group functioning. He concludes that the primary task of the chief resident is to serve as psychotherapist to the staff, and that ...
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Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages1088-b–1088On page 631 of Dr. Anthony M. D'Agostino's article entitled "Depression: Schism in Contemporary Psychiatry," which appeared in the June issue of the Journal, it was incorrectly stated that the author's father was taken off antihypertensive medication ...
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