American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 133
- Number 5
- May 1976
Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages489–495Focusing on the definition, scope, and role of psychiatry today, the author discusses whether psychiatry is primarily medical, whether it is overstepping its boundaries in attempting to treat problems of living, and whether it is too involved with social ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.489Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages496–501The author examines three points of view on the question of society's right to involuntarily hospitalize a mentally ill individual. The "abolitionists" oppose involuntary hospitalization entirely; the medical model psychiatrists support the need for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.496Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages502–508The authors conducted a series of multiple regression analyses of data from depressed patients. They found that 8 factors consistently predicted treatment response: a lower initial level of distress, imipramine treatment, a positive attitude toward group ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.502Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages509–514The authors compared treatment results for 141 schizophrenic patients randomly assigned to short-term or long-term hospitalization. Test results indicated that the long-term group was functioning significantly better one year after admission according to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.509Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages515–517The authors studied the effect of long-term versus short-term hospitalization on a group of 74 patients with the diagnoses of affective disorder, neurosis and personality disorder, and hysterical personality one year after their admission to the hospital. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.515Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages518–521A total of 175 newly admitted inpatients who lived with their families were randomly assigned to three treatment groups: standard inpatient care and brief hospitalization with and without transitional day care. Case reports of 6 of the 9 patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.518Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages522–526Focusing on the definition, scope, and role of psychiatry today, the author discusses whether psychiatry is primarily medical, whether it is overstepping its boundaries in attempting to treat problems of living, and whether it is too involved with social ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.522Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages527–531The authors interviewed 69 subjects who had had jejuno-ileal bypass surgery for obesity to determine the relationship between weight loss and eating behavior after surgery. All patients had been extremely overweight; at an average of 37 months after ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.527Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages532–538The author compared the mental health of 42 young adults who had suffered from a neurosis in childhood with that of 20 control subjects. Various aspects of functioning were clinically assessed using the Current and Past Psychopathology Scales and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.532Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages539–542The New York longitudinal study has followed the development of 136 subjects from infancy into adolescence. The authors report the distribution of diagnoses and outcome of 43 children who developed behavior problems before the adolescent period and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.539Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages543–547The author hypothesizes that neurosis results from maladaptation and leads to further maladaptation, thus creating a vicious cycle that can be viewed as having played a significant role in human evolution. Individuals who were less successful in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.543Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages548–554The authors review the development of their rapid treatment dual-sex therapy for sexual dysfunction. The basic tenets of the new sex therapy include 1) sound knowledge of physiology, endocrinology, and metabolic function, 2) institution of psychotherapy ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.548Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages555–559Marital and sex therapy are clinically interrelated in most cases because they deal with different symptoms of overlapping aspects of the couple's total relationship. The connection between marital discord and sexual dysfunction determines the emphasis ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.555Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages559–562Assessment of 29 couples seeking marital therapy and 25 seeking sexual therapy at the same institution permitted the delineation of two distinct profiles. Although the two groups were similar in the degree of their sexual and marital difficulties and in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.559Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages562–566The author discusses two areas of psychophysiological research that may be relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunction: investigations of sexual arousal in men and studies of nocturnal penile tumescence. There has been no convincing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.562Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages567–570The authors analyzed the results of a multihospital collaborative study on the effectiveness of lithium prophylaxis in recurrent depression in terms of dosage and found that serum lithium levels between 0.5 and 0.7 mEq/liter and doses below 1000 mg/day ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.567Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages570–572The author tested the hypothesis that a single bedtime dosage schedule of tricyclic or neuroleptic medication produces increased frequency of night terrors by administering a questionnaire to 30 medical patients who were not receiving such medications and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.570Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages575–577In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of books and articles on death and dying. The ambivalence of some writers regarding the value of this proliferation of papers led the author to review and evaluate this literature; he found ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.575Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages578–579The author reviews the results of computerized tomography performed on eight patients with tardive dyskinesia to determine whether there was permanent structural damage. No significant abnormalities were found. Although it may not be useful in routine ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.578Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages580–582The authors describe a patient with symptoms of anorexia nervosa who was initially treated on a psychiatric ward but was later found to have a hypothalamic tumor. They recommend repeated neurological and endocrine evaluations for patients with anorexia ...
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Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages601–602This statement was approved by the Assembly of District Branches at its November 4-5, 1975, meeting and by the Board of Trustees at its December 5-6, 1975, meeting, upon recommendation of the Council on National Affairs. It was prepared by the Task Force ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.601Publication date: 01 May 1976
Page603This statement was approved by the Board of Trustees at its December 5-6, 1975, meeting upon recommendation of the Council on National Affairs. it was prepared by the Task Force on Ecopsychiatric Data Base.1
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.603Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages603-a–603This statement, a revision of a statement approved in December 1963, was approved by the Assembly of District Branches at its November 4-5, 1975, meeting and by the Board of Trustees at its December 5-6, 1975, meeting. The revision was recommended by the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.603-aPublication date: 01 May 1976
Page604This statement was approved by the Assembly of District Branches at its November 4-5, 1975, meeting and by the Board of Trustees at its December 5-6, 1975, meeting, upon recommendation of the Council on Mental Health Services. it was prepared by the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.604Publication date: 01 May 1976
Page605This statement, a revision of a previously approved statement (published in the August 1971 issue), was approved by the Assembly of District Branches at its November 4-5, 1975, meeting and by the Board of Trustees at its December 5-6, 1975, meeting. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.5.605Past Issues
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