American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 132
- Number 6
- June 1975
Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages583–592The authors describe various methods of marital therapy in use today. Although absence of a unifying conceptual scheme in the past has hampered developments in this field, the increasing acknowledgment by psychiatrists of the important effect of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.583Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages593–597The authors examined central catecholamine metabolism in various symptomatological psychotic disorders and the relationship between the biochemical and therapeutic action profiles of neuroleptics. Haloperidol and (to a lesser entent) chlorpromaziner ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.593Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages598–601The authors compared treatment of chronic anxiety with biofeedback- mediated electromyographic (EMG) relaxation to treatment with group psychotherapy in a control group. Feedback patients were given two weeks of EMG relaxation training followed by two ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.598Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages602–606The authors propose that the Oedipus complex has a strong biological basis that is evident in observations of human prehistoric and nonhuman primate behavior. The groundwork for the oedipal phase is the peaking of human infantile sexuality at age five or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.602Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages607–610Although psychiatry and clinical medicine share ideals about what distinguishes a good practitioner, medical schools do not select students on the basis of these qualities. Moreover, they seem to discourage many interested students from choosing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.607Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages611–616Computer analysis significantly differtiated the thermatic content of the free speech of 10 schizophrenic patients from that of 10 nonschizophrenic patients and from the content of transcripts of dream material from 10 normal subjects. Schizophrenic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.611Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages617–622The authors describe a group-home program that has been operating successfully for three years in St. Louis, Mo. The program offers ex- mental hospital patients the opportunity to gradually acquire experience in living independently in the community. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.617Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages623–626The authors found similar attitudes toward methadone and methadone treatment programs in 75 detoxification and 115 methadone maintenance clients. Both groups expressed considerable ambivalence--although they viewed methadone as capable of helping them end ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.623Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages627–628The authors collected a large number of research interviews with relatives of patients from a psychiatric research clinic. Half of these patients were clinically depressed; their relatives as well as the rest of the relatives interviewed were therefore at ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.627Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages629–632The author decribes an experience in his own family involving the initial unsuccessful treatment of a depressed patient. The patient failed to respond to psychotherapeutic and drug treatment on an outpatient basis and in three hospitals; in a fourth ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.629Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages632–636Electroconvuslive therapy alleviated the symptoms of four out of six patients suffering from chronic pain and from depression as measured by the Hamiliton Depression Rating Scale. All of the patients had been unsuccessfully treated with tricyclic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.632Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages636–640A four-year follow-up of professional personnel who had been working overseas indicates that the depressive syndrome was the most common diagnosable psychiatric illness in this population. The study also shows that in this content the syndrome had a good ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.636Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages641–644The authors compared two groups of depressed alcoholics given either placebo or chlordiazepoxide-imipramine in a double-blind study. Although depression decreased in both groups, there were no significant differences between them on any of three pre- and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.641Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages644–646The authors found that in a sample of 26 severely depressed hospitalized patients, 5 patients with low depression and psychasthenia profiles on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory did not show an antidepressant response to lithium carbonate. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.644Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages650–651Long-term (30-to 40-year) follow-up data for 76 manic patients, 182 depressives. 170 schizophrenics, and 109 controls showed that 10 per cent of the schizophrenics, 8.5 percent of the manics, and 10.6 percent of the depressives who were decreased had died ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.650Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages652–653Of five patients who were receiving tricyclic antidepressants, two experienced an aggravation of preexisting hiatus hernia, and three with previously normal gastrointestinal X rays developed hiatal herination. The author suggests that this group of drugs ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.652Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages654–655The benzodiazepines and hydroxyzine were removed from a statewide Medicaid pharmacopeia. Barbiturate sedatives, hypnotic and antipsychotic medication, and tricyclic antidepressants remained available, but no substitution was made for about two-thirds of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.654Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages656–658The authors describe one phase of a four-step procedure designed to more fully evaluate candidates for psychotherapist positions. All applicants must conduct an interview with a patient, which is observed and evaluated by a team of staff members to assess ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.656Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages658–661Since over one-third of the psychiatric residency positions in the United states are filled by foreign medical graduates, there is a need to identify and correct both the emotional and cognitive problems of these medical trainees. To meet this need the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.6.658Publication date: 01 June 1975
Pages662–665A 30-month study explored the degree to which self-destructive behavior compromised tuberculosis therapy and prophylaxis among southwestern American Indians. The frequency of isoniazid (INH) overdosage paralleled the extent of INH usage in each tribe and ...
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