American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 134
- Number 10
- October 1977
Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1071–1076Feminity and professionalism traditionally have been regarded as incompatible. From their own experience and that of colleagues and patients, the authors argue that female personhood is enriched by professional committment. In consequence, the woman with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1071Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1077–1081The authors revisited Erving Goffman's Asylum (Saint Elizabeths Hospital) and found both the "institutionalization" and "secondary adjustment" phenomena he described 20 years ago. However, they question whether secondary adjustments necessarily follows ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1077Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1082–1086The authors discuss the treatment of 575 schizophrenic patients over the past 15 years. They describe a shift the patients have experiences from reliance on inpatient treatment to heavy use of outpatient services. The have found that effective outpatient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1082Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1087–1092The authors state that the medical model represents the most useful and appropriate model available for the practice of psychiatry. They discuss the implications for psychiatry of the three essential features of the medical model: the concept of disease ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1087Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1093–1097The authors scored the examination performance of 28 psychiatrists who were tested after conducting an interview with a real patient and after seeing a videotaped interview with an actor playing the role of either a psychotic or a neurotic patient. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1093Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1098–1103Previous reports have indicated that platelet MAO activity is low in some schizophrenic and other psychiatric patients. However, other studies have not been able to replicate this phenomenon. This study supportsthe previous observations of low enzyme ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1098Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1104–1108A training program for enhancing the care-giving qualities of child- care workers was developed and implemented through semistructured groups for family day-care mothers. The authors describe the theoretical orientation, program goals, and the outcome for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1104Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1109–1112The author proposes that fear and anger are innate defensive mechanisms mobilized by preceived threats to the individual. Both mechanisms are accompanied by anxiety and an urge to escape or attack. The individual's lifestyle, which is the result of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1109Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1113–1116The author describes characteristics of patients, primarily adolescents, who suffer from episodic violent behavior and their relations with their families. Typical family patterns include overly close alliances by the adolescent with one or both parents ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1113Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1117–1118The authors measured plasma testosterone levels in 21 homosexual women and 19 age-matched heterosexual women. Although values for the two groups overlapped considerably, testosterone concentrations averaged 38% higher in homosexual than in heterosexual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1117Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1119–1123The author reviewed the case records of 100 physician inpatients in a private psychiatric hospital. He found that these physicians were more likely to have diagnoses of affective disorder and drug abuse than the general psychiatric hospital population, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1119Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1123–1126Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction. Data on patients younger than 55 show no abnormalities on the Halstead-Reitan ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1123Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1126–1130The authors obtained curriculum needs analysis data from second-year medical students and compared these with data obtained from nonpsychiatrist physicians and psychiatrists. All groups felt that interviewing skills, the doctor-patient relationship, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1126Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1130–1133The authors compared the psychiatric symptoms, socioeconomic status, family structure, family size, and occurrence of treated parental mental illness in 136 children referred to a juvenile court and 82 children referred to a child guidance clinic. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1130Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1134–1136The authors studied the hospital records of 400 hospitalized mentally ill patients for evidence of violent behavior leading to admission. They found that 36% of 321 admissions (excluding patients diagnosed as having a personality disorder or as drug-and/...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1134Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1137–1139The authors compared the MMPI scores of 29 inpatients diagnosed by other authors as having hysterical personality and 21 outpatients diagnosed by the authors as having Briquet's syndrome. The two groups of patients differed significantly in age, on the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1137Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1140–1142The author, a psychiatrist and an elected official in a small town, compares his observations of local politicians with a mental health commissioner's observations of politicians at the state level. The author feels that local politicians tend to be more ...
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Page1163The table of contents of the July 1977 issue lists the author of "Fluphenazine Decanoate During Pregnancy" as "M.F. Cleary et al." Dr. Cleary is the sole author. The staff regrets these errors
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.10.1163Publication date: 01 October 1977
Pages1163-a–1163In the August 1977 issue of the Journal (letters to the editor, "Confidentiality: A Solution to the Problem?"), there was an error in the spelling of Dr. Francis J. Durgin's name The staff regrets these errors
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