American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 133
- Number 8
- August 1976
Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages883–890The authors discuss the setting, patients, and staff, and the role of psychiatric consultants in intensive care units and trauma centers. They point out the similarities and differences between patients with multiple trauma and those who have had open-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.883Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages891–895Interviews with 80 therapists and 50 patients at a community mental health center revealed that peer review effectively monitored the appropriateness of treatment and allocated limited treatment funds without unduly interfering with established treatment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.891Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages896–899Behavior therapy is characterized by the way in which clinical data are collected, analyzed, and used in the treatment program-specifically, the application of the methods of experimental and social psychology. A case history of the behavioral treatment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.896Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages900–904The authors found that 40 of 50 adult adoptees who had reunions with their birth parents found the experience satisfying. Only 10% of the birth parents reacted adversely, although negative response were somewhat more common among the adoptive parents. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.900Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages905–908The authors attempted to assess the extent to which bipolar patients are misdiagnosed as unipolar by evaluating the development of mania in patients who had recognized bipolar illness and by means of follow-up data on patients who had recurrent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.905Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages909–915The authors studied the language patterns of schizophrenic mothers and their 4-year-old children, and compared them with the speech of normal mothers and children and normal mothers with autistic children. They found that children of schizophrenic mothers ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.909Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages922–924The authors compare their experience with 4 years on a brief hospitalization unit based on crisis theory with a fifth year on the same unit based on a traditional psychiatric approach. In terms of demographic and diagnostic variables and rehospitalization ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.922Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages925–929The authors investigated lithium prophylaxis of depression in bipolar I (N=35), bipolar II (N=18), and unipolar I (N=28) outpatients. Depression indices included frequency of depressive episodes, three measures of severity, dropouts due to depression, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.925Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages930–934The authors describe a program that is directed at assuring effective treatment and referral for alcoholic and addicted patients in a general hospital; the program was developed to assure maximal utlization of available addiction treatment facilities ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.930Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages935–939The focus of training in a competency-based residency program is on ensuring that all residents attain prespecified levels of competence for particular objectives in each training activity. The authors examine the components of a competency-based program ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.935Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages940–943Amantadine is a putative dopaminergic compound known to be therapeutically effective in idiopathic and postencephalitic Parkinson's disease. In a double-blind placebo-controlled crossover study of 39 psychiatric inpatients, amantadine and trihexyphenidyl ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.940Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages944–947The authors conducted a follow-up study of 78 patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome. Four of the patients were in spontaneous remission; 59 patients taking haloperidol showed an average improvement of 79.3% and the remaining patients, 3 of whom ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.944Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages948–952The drug-automatism hypothesis implies a medication-induced absence of intentionality for self-poisoning and a relative amnesia for serial or single overdosage. Controversy stems from problems encountered in the formulation and verfication of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.948Red blood cell catechol O-methyl transferase and response to imipramine in unipolar depressive women
Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages952–955When baseline red blood cell catechol O-methyltransferase (COMT) was measured in 15 unipolar depressive women, the authors found a linear correlation between COMT and response to imipramine (best outcome occurring at low COMT). The results of this study ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.952Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages955–957Many heroin addicts prefer methadone maintenance treatment to 1-alpha- acetylmethadol(LAAM) because of the "rush-like" effect of methadone. Although there have been no observable differences in the safety and effectiveness of the two drugs, LAAM appears ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.955Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages957–961The authors examined the available data for 10 adolescents who had been charged with parricide and compared these with data for matched groups of 10 adolescents charged with murdering another relative or a close acquaintance and 10 charged with murdering ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.957Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages961–964Carbon monoxide intoxication may result in subtle neuropsychiatric abnormalities that can be overlooked, misdiagnosed, or not fully appreciated. The author describes two patients who developed subtle but troublesome emotional cognitive problems following ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.961Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages964–966The author calls attention to developing changes in medical training that may provide an appropriate setting for overcoming the dichotomous view of mind and body, of psychological medicine and "scientific medicine." Primary care training programs that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.964Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages967–969The authors suggest that the potential usefulness of a college mental health service as a site for teaching, training, and research has been understimated by departments of psychiatry. College health services can provide an opportunity for both trainees ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.967Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages969–972In a group of 150 working-class Jamaican women, lack of information from their mothers about sex coupled with chronic resentment was associated with having had more sexual partners, impregnators, and children. In contrast to age at first coitus, age at ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.969Publication date: 01 August 1976
Pages973–975While working with young male offenders the authors developed a scale to assess sociolegal judgment, i.e., the ability to evaluate the possible social and legal consequences of various choices of action in a given situation. They found that some inmates ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.973Article
Publication date: 01 August 1976
Page981The article "Agitated Psychotic Depression Associated with Severe Hypomanic Episodes: A Rare Syndrome," by Jonathan M. Himmelhoch. M.D., Patricia Coble, R.N., David J. Kupfer, M.D., and Jane Ingenito. R.N., M S N. (July 1976 issue) should have stated that ...
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