American Journal of Psychiatry

Publication date: 01 October 1976

In the first part of this overview the author reviewed research on gender differences in behavior and women's sexual and reproductive lives, and discussed the social and intellectual context of the recent knowledge explosion in women's studies. In this ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Anger is paradoxically one of the most talked about but least studied of human emotions. The author presents a model of anger arousal that emphasizes the adaptive as well as the maladaptive roles of anger in terms of the diverse functions anger serves in ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

The author reviews a study by Kety and associates that reported a significantly greater prevalence of schizophrenic spectrum disorders among the biological relatives of schizophrenic adoptees than among those of nonschizophrenic adoptees. The principal ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

The author addresses questions raised by Dr. Lorna S. Benjamin in the preceding paper. He quotes from the original studies to respond to questions regarding statistical logic, the relative prevalence of schizophrenia among half-siblings and parents of ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

The author examines the legal and professional sanctions against sex between therapist and patient. The relevant literature of criminal law suggests that charges of rape or related sexual offenses against psychotherapists who exploit their patients are a ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

The authors conducted interviews with 98 recovered alcoholic physicians, all of whom had been entirely abstinent for a minimum of one calendar year. Psychiatry was the only specialty clearly overrepresented. A disproportionate number of subjects reported ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

The authors used sleep laboratory data to predict responses to psychiatric treatment. The predictions were based on the assumptions that REM latency reflects the need for dreaming and therefore the need for adaptation and that REM time reflects the ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

The author describes three women who presented psychotic symptoms 24-- 48 hours before scheduled neurosurgical procedures for atypical facial pain; all had had extensive dental reconstruction and attempted nerve blocks with no relief. Psychiatric ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Lead-chelating medication was used to treat 13 hyperkinetic school children whose blood and urine lead levels were in an elevated but "nontoxic" range. Six children with histories of etiologically relevant perinatal or developmental complications showed ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

A questionnaire sent to all women psychiatrists and trainees in North Carolina as part of the development of a district branch Task Force on Women indicated that institutional sexism affects the careers of many of the respondents. Problems of family-...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Four rhesus monkeys were reared for the first eight months of life in total social isolation. One animal died during this period; the three remaining subjects were treated with diazepam in an isolation chamber, in their home cages, and in a playroom ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

The authors studied the relation between human central dopamine (DA) metabolism and the clinical effects of neuroleptics. The neuroleptic- induced increase in central DA turnover (an indicator for the degree of DA receptor blocking) was found to be ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

The authors present a case study that explores the relationship of dopamine function and manic illness through the use of two drugs with relatively specific effects in stimulating and blocking dopamine receptors--piribedil (ET--495) and pimozide, ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

In order to test the efficacy of the pineal neurohumor melatonin on depression, the hormone was administered in varying doses to six moderately to severely depressed patients and two patients with Huntington's chorea in double-blind crossover study. ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

In a double-blind study, three depressed subjects received thyrotropin- releasing hormone (TRH) on three successive days, and one subject similarly received placebo; all subjects were then given ECT. Two of the patients given TRH responded to ECT. One ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

The activity of platelet monoamine oxidase in 12 chronic schizophrenic patients was not significantly different from that in a matched group of normal individuals. The authors emphasize the importance of simultaneous processing of control and patient ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

The authors describe two patients whose requests for sex-change surgery represented crises in sexual identity and anxiety-masking symptoms. Brief psychotherapy enabled these patients to relinquish their belief in a surgical "cure". In evaluating such ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

Self-help groups can aid an individual in coping with and adapting to catastrophic illness. The authors describe a therapeutic technique in which a member of a medical team serves as a catalyst in introducing a "veteran" patient to a newly disabled ...

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The authors describe a program in which third-year psychiatric residents participate as ex-officio members on the boards of community service agencies. Experience as board members gives residents a broad understanding of issues related to the delivery of ...

Publication date: 01 October 1976

The authors describe a cable TV link between a medical school and a child health station in East Harlem. Nurse associates and community health workers trained through television conferences with a child psychiatrist have the primary responsibility for ...

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Publication date: 01 October 1976