American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 132
- Number 7
- July 1975
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Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages703–706Defining "symbol" as that which draws together and unites experience and "myth" as a cluster of symbols set in dramatic form, the author discusses the lack of both symbols and myths in contemporary sociaty. This lack had led to a disintegration of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.703Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages707–709The authors discuss their observations of acute psychiatric patients in a day hospital, noting the universality of the existential concerns that arise once the patient has confronted his illness. They discuss the problem of what determins a "cure" in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.707Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages710–715The coverage of out-of-hospital expenses for mental health care through prepayment and insurance programs has been a major advance in removing the economic barriers to early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders. However, obstacles to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.710Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages716–719Depressed patients with delusions were found to be markedly unresponsive to tricyclic drug therapy during an ongoing study of depressed patients. After four weeks of administration of imipramine hydrochloride, only 3 of 13 delusional depressed patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.716Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages720–722The use of the diagnosis "sociopathy" and its synonyms hinders the search for other kinds of symptomatology, the recognition of which might lead to appropriate therapeutic intervention. The authors therefore suggest that the terms "sociopathic personality,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.720Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages723–728In this double-blind, crossover study of 8 boys with minimal brain dysfunction, 20 mg of methylphenidate daily was significantly better than 160 mg of caffeine in controlling behavior, especially impulsivity and hyperactivity, and methylphenidate alone ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.723Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages729–733Drawing on their experience, the authors explore the opportunity for learning administrative process that is available to the psychiatric chief resident. They categorize six models of the psychiatric chief residency and document two of them, the ward ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.729Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages734–738The authors present data from a survey of four methadone maintenance programs, five outpatient clinics, six nonresidential facilities, and nine therapeutic communities affiliated with the Dade County Comprehensive Drug Program. The treatment population ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.734Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages741–742The authors examined 88 patients with an admission diagnosis of schizophrenia for the presence of good and poor clinical prognostic signs and related their findings to the clinical presentation, response to somatic treatments, and prevalence of illness in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.741Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages743–745The authors report the occurrence of a sever striopallidal disorder in a schizophrenic patient one week after he received fluphenazine enanthate injections on an every-other-day schedule. In view of current interest in depot psychopharmaceuticals, they ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.743Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages745–747The author describes a technique for use with adolescents (perferably nonpsychotic, acting-out patients) in the terminal phase of psychiatric hospitalization. Patient, parents, and therapist have a summit meeting during which they write a contract which ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.745Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages748–749The author presents data on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) characteristics of a sample of enlisted Army men returning from Viet Nam identified as heroin abusers. Although a marked heterogeneity of MMPI profile types was found, a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.748Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages750–753Although traditional societies in Oceania direct their fertility choice behavior (if any) toward spirits rather than sexual intercourse, closer observation shows that these fertility choice behaviors, while groping and magical, sometimes have empirical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.750Publication date: 01 July 1975
Pages753–755The wacinko syndrome in the Oglala Sioux varies from a nonclinical reaction to pathological degrees of anger, pouting, withdrawal, depression, psychomotor retardation, mutism, immobility, and even to suicide. Although indigenous proctitioners recognize ...
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