American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 133
- Number 1
- January 1976
Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages1–13In the first part of this overview the author reviewed the clinical literature on prophylactic treatment of schizophrenia with maintenance antipsychotic drugs. In this second part he reviews the literature on maintenance treatment of affective disorders ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.1Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages14–19Postpsychotic depression is an important clinical phenomenon about which little is known. Using data from a cohort of 30 schizophrenic patients, the authors examine the frequency of the syndrome, predictive variables, and its prognostic implications. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.14Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages20–25The authors obtained early case histories of 16 children with chronic nonspecific diarrhea and 16 control subjects and found that the index subjects had a significantly higher frequency of sleep problems, crying and irritability, digestive problems ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.20Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages26–31The authors studied 12 superobese women for 10 months to 3 years following jejuno-ileal bypass surgery. All patients had significant weight loss to near normal levels and were pleased with their newfound capabilities in the areas of physical, social, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.26Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages32–36The serious long-term complications of maintenance antipsychotic therapy led the authors to undertake a critical review of outpatient withdrawal studies. Key findings included the following: 1) for a least 40% of outpatient schizophrenics, drugs seem to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.32Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages37–40The authors present five case histories illustrating controlled use of opiates ("chipping"). Long-term chippers tend to develop consistent social use patterns that permit and also limit use. The authors conclude that controlled use of opiates is possible ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.37Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages41–44As an acknowledged aspect of psychotherapy, countertransference would be an anticipated subject for discussion in clinical supervision. However, the authors' review of videotapes of 24 supervisors working with second-year residents revealed that 12 made ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.41Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages45–50The authors present a method for the development of standard process criteria for the care of defined subpopulations of psychiatric patients using a two-dimensional problem category system to describe patients. Patient subpopulations, described by both a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.45Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages51–55The author provides a summary of developments in peer review and Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs) within APA, the federal government, and the American Medical Association between June 1974 and June 1975. He discusses the reaction of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.51Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages56–61The author describes the history and implications of recent legislation affecting community mental health centers. New legislative requirements will result in centers seeing typically underserved populations (children, the elderly, and drug and alcohol ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.56Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages61–65Of 140 patients seen at a psychiatric clinic serving a predominantly black, low-income population, 65% attended for four or more visits. Patients over age 30 and those with a diagnosis of psychosis or personality disorder remained in therapy for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.61Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages65–68The author examines mental health issues related to the elderly from the perspective of the options for immediate impact on treatment. He stresses the potential for creative collaboration between public and private mental health care systems. Myths, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.65Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages69–72The Community Mental Health Center Amendments of 1975 (Public Law 94- 63) mandate that federally funded mental health centers provide specific services to patients discharged from mental health facilities, including follow-up care and a system of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.69Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages73–75The author conducted a literature search for follow-up studies of patients released from state mental hospitals to the community to assess the impact of released patients and the community on one another. She found that the follow-up studies lacked ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.73Article
Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages80–82The author examined the incidence and severity of extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) in 19 male psychotic outpatients receiving fluphenazine decanoate. Ten patients developed an EPS; only 3 had symptoms of the highest severity. The data suggest that neither ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.80Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages82–85The authors found a 60% incidence of difficulties in sexual functioning in 57 male patients who had taken thioridazine. Ejaculatory problems were the most frequent dysfunction; a third of these patients experienced retrograde ejaculation. The incidence of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.82Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages85–88The authors describe a case of Briquet's syndrome in a man and discuss the relationship of that condition to personality features. They view Briquet's syndrome as a set of behaviors arising from personality traits and suggest that examination of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.85Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages89–92The author reports on the responses of 37 psychiatric and related professional journals to a questionnaire on procedures for selection of articles and of editors and/or editorial boards, with a focus on possible sexism in these practices. Results ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.89Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages93–95Skull films were taken routinely for a sample consisting of all inpatients at a psychiatric facility over a 5-year period (N = 2,943). The skull series revealed some abnormalities in 17.3% of the patients and significant abnormalities in 2.4%. The author ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.93Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages95–97A mental health center's experience with folk healers in a Hispanic urban ghetto revealed a culturally accepted belief system based on a body of empirical knowledge that helps its members to cope with distress. The authors suggest that including folk ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.95Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages98–100The authors describe the inception and evolution of a program of primary prevention directed at widowed men and women. The program has four major components-the widowed (telephone) line, home visits, social gatherings, and community seminars. The various ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.98Article
Publication date: 01 January 1976
Page107Due to a typographical error, a sentence in "Putting Our House in Order" (Letters to the Editor, October 1975 issue) by Hans R. Huessy, M.D., incorrectly read as follows:"Only in this century did psychoanalysis manage to enter and dominate academic ...
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