American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 132
- Number 8
- August 1975
Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages789–795Hallucinations occur in a wide variety of altered states of consciousnes and are an important symptom in various psychiatric syndromes. Several psychological and biological theories of their origin have offered, ranging from the concept of wish ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.789Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages796–801Results of a 5-year follow-up of 100 randomly selected patients committed to a community-oriented mental hospital in 1947 are compared with those of a 5-year follow-up of 100 randomly selected patients admitted to a community-based mental health center in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.796Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages802–808The authors developed reliable clinical rating scales to compare 35 children with school phobia and their families with a matched sample of children with other neuroses and their families. Twice as many school phobic children as children with other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.802Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages809–814Material from interviews with 35 premenarcheal and postmenarcheal girls suggests that menarche is an emotional event related to the adolescent girl's emerging identity as an adult woman, her newly acquired ability to reproduce, and her changing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.809Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages815–820Interviews with young girls aged 9 to 18 revealed that commercial educational materials are an important source of information about menstruation. Although these materials are valuable educational supplements, they do not provide a complete, accurate, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.815Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages821–824Nineteen psychiatrists who participated in the research training program at Boston University School of Medicine from July 1962 to June 1972 were surveyed by questionnaire to determine how participation in the training program may have affected their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.821Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages825–828The laws of many of the states require a physician to determine that a mentally ill individual presents a danger to others before the disturbed person can be civilly committed for involuntary treatment. The author contends that the prediction of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.825Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages832–836The authors propose that active physician participation in current review methodologies, including PSRO, can lessen the potential for such problems as the development of unrealistic standards, emphasis on review and record keeping as ends rather than ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.832Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages836–841Data on 90 psychiatric patients' perceptions of the course and outcome of hospitalization were gathered using a problem-oriented system. Patients were interviewed on admission, at discharge, and at two follow- up intervals. Therapists perceptions of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.836Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages842–846A pervasive sense of urgency, stimulated by the Social Security Amendments of 1972 (Public Law 92-603), attends the need to establish norms for length of stay for impatient services in mental health facilities and to provide review mechanisms for extended ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.842Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages847–850The authors report their experience with a 12-item checklist used to score need for hospitalization. The checklist was filled in and scored by research assistants who reviewed the charts of 100 hospitalized and 50 nonhospitalized patients. A written ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.847Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages851–855The authors reviewed the charts of 36 nonhospitalized suicide attempters who were identified by utilization review as requiring hospitalization. In 16 of the cases, the authors judged the treatment given to have been adequate because of an absence of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.851Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages856–858The author emphasizes the potential benefits to patients, physicians, and third-party payers from systematic specification of services rendered by psychiatrists in direct patient care. Procedural Terminology for Psychiatrists provides a reporting system ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.856Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages858–860The authors have developed a two-year part-time sex therapy training program for physicians. The first year emphasizes instruction in human sexuality as it relations to dysfunctional states. A highly selected group continues to a year of clinical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.858Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages861–863The authors compared the effects of chlordiazepoxide, oxazepam, and placebo on hostility, as an inner motivational or arousal state, in moderately and highly anxious male research volunteers. The data again supported the hypothesis that clordiazepoxide-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.861Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages864–867A patient who developed severe tardive dyskinesia after the termination of long-term phenothiazine therapy was successfully treated with deanol, a possible precursor of acetylcholine. Physiological measurements were obtained to quantify the clinical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.864Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages868–870The authors compared the efficacy of caffeine, methylphenidate, and d- amphetamine in children with minimal brain dysfunction using a double- blind crossover design. The slight improvement with caffeine was not significantly better than placebo. Both ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.8.868Publication date: 01 August 1975
Pages870–871The authors describe a 26-year-old woman who became hypomanic after awakening from a semicomatose state induced by an overdose of amitriptyline-perphenazine (Triavil). She had been depressed and had a strong family history of manic-depressive illness. The ...
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