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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 133
  • Number 11
  • November 1976

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1251–1258

In 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.133.11.1251

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1259–1264

The 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.133.11.1259

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1265–1268

The 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.133.11.1265

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1269–1274

The 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.133.11.1269

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1275–1278

The 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.133.11.1275

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1279–1285

The 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.133.11.1279

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1286–1289

The 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.133.11.1286

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1290–1294

The 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.133.11.1290

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1295–1299

In 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.133.11.1295

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1300–1305

Program 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.133.11.1300

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1306–1309

The 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.133.11.1306

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1310–1312

The 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.133.11.1310

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1313–1315

A 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.133.11.1313

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1316–1318

Analysis 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.133.11.1316

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1318–1321

The 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.133.11.1318

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1321–1323

The 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.133.11.1321

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1324–1325

Using 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.133.11.1324

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1326–1328

The 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.133.11.1326

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1328–1331

The 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.133.11.1328

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1331–1333

The 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.133.11.1331

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1333–1336

The 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.133.11.1333

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1337–1340

The 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.133.11.1337

Publication date: 01 November 1976

Pages1340–1341

The 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 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1340

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