American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 133
- Number 11
- November 1976
Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1251–1258In this Bicentennial year, the author takes a look at the early days of Amercan psychiatry, focusing on some of the great men who helped to form the discipline. These men have much to teach us in a time when the field is divided within and faces a crisis ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1251Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1259–1264The need for accurate assessment and accountability is of paramount professional concern to psychiatry. The authors state that ego functions assessment (EFA) is reliable and valid quantitative technique, useful for these purposes in a variety of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1259Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1265–1268The authors found moderate to severe depression in 60% of a group of schizophrenic patients experiencing acute decompensations (N=30). The course of the depression was followed over an 8-week period8,during which patients were treated with depot ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1265Postpsychotic state, convalescent environment, and therapeutic relationship in schizophrenic outcome
Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1269–1274The authors evaluated the following variables in the 2-3-year outcomes of 30 schizophrenic patients: the acute/chronic dichotomy, the presence of a postpsychotic regressive state, the quality of the convalescent environment, and the formation of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1269Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1275–1278The presence of two separate languages, each with its own lexical, syntactic, semantic, and ideational components, can complicate psychotherapy with proficient bilingual patients. If only one language is used in therapy, some aspects of the patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1275Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1279–1285The authors studied a group of four monkeys reared together, repeatedly separated from each other, and then exposed to another group of four monkeys reared in surrogate-peer groups who acted as therapists. The study group was compared with the therapist ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1279Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1286–1289The authors studied potential violations by mental health centers of individuals' rights to privacy and confidentiality by sending questionnaires to state directors of mental health programs and to mental health centers in all the 50 United States and its ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1286Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1290–1294The authors review the empirical literature examining the hypothesized relationship between the patient's perception of the therapeutic relationship and treatment outcome in group therapy and describe studies of both inpatient and outpatient group ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1290Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1295–1299In an attempt to discover how the phenomenon of amok is viewed within its indigenous culture, the authors studied and interviewed 21 subjects in West Malaysia who were labeled as amok. This investigation showed that both the subjects and the Malay culture ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1295Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1300–1305Program evaluation--the use of scientific techniques to measure the value of an agency's work--has become the focus of major attention and enthusiasm in mental health service planning and administration. However, the author points out that completed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1300Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1306–1309The authors review recent and current literature on the relationship between psychological factors and cancer. They discuss the roles of predisposing personality patterns and emotional stress in the development, site, and course of cancer; the influence ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1306Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1310–1312The authors present statistics from Harris County, Tex., that indicate community psychiatry is making progress toward its goals of decreasing inpatient hospitalization and increasing services to the community. At the present ratio of services, a 30%-40% ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1310Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1313–1315A study of 89 individual psychotherapy patients followed by 17 residents in a teaching clinic demonstrated that those presented for supervision significantly differed from the others in being younger, better educated, and better liked by residents and in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1313Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1316–1318Analysis of data gathered from interviews with adoptive parents supports the hypothesis that female adoptees of antisocial biological backgrounds might have higher percentages of somatic symptoms. The authors compared female adoptees of antisocial ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1316Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1318–1321The author describes 20 male transsexuals who differ from most discussed in professional studies and from those in media portrayals in that they live in the male homosexual subculture. Furthermore, interviews with these individuals indicated that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1318Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1321–1323The authors discuss the problems of accurately diagnosing narcolepsy when patients manifest the auxiliary symptoms of this disorder, i.e., cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis, which conclude that misdiagnosis of narcolepsy can be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1321Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1324–1325Using the responses of 460 physicians to a questionnaire survey regarding sexual contact with patients (1), the authors attempt to statistically differentiate two groups--erotic practitioners and nonerotic practitioners. Analysis of data suggests that the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1324Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1326–1328The author reports two cases in which depersonalization occurred during the waking consciousness of individuals who had engaged in meditative techniques designed to alter consciousness. Psychiatrists should be aware of this phenomenon, as the number ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1326Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1328–1331The author studied 28 men convicted and confined for use of explosives in assaults on superior officers during the Viet Nam war. There were several predominant characteristics in this group, including deprivation and/or brutality in family backgrounds, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1328Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1331–1333The authors report on a year's experience in providing psychiatric services in a county jail setting. Of 545 inmates evaluated, 22% were diagnosed as psychotic and 23% had a history of long-term or multiple hospitalizations. The authors discuss the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1331Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1333–1336The authors found that marital coitus had ceased for a definable period (median=8 weeks) in one-third of a sample of 144 men and 221 women who were relatively young and had been married an average of 11 years. An analysis of factors related to the social ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1333Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1337–1340The digit-symbol substituion task (DSST) of the WAIS was given to working (MW) and nonworking (MNW) patients on high-dose methadone maintenance and to two comparison groups to assess the function of attention in these patients. Mean DSST scores were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1337Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages1340–1341The authors describe a portable electromyograph (EMG) designed for use in monitoring unilateral ECT. Administration of muscle relaxants in conjunction with ECT often makes it difficult to determine that an adequate response has been elicited. The authors ...
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