American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 134
- Number 4
- April 1977
Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages357–365In their review of the literature on the effects of parental alcoholism on the offspring of alcoholics, the authors focus on sample collection, criteria used for the diagnosis of parental alcoholism, and definitions of "emotional disturbances." Studies ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.357Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages366–370The author states that the use of the amino acid L-tryptophan as a hypnotic might avoid the problems of nonspecificity in the currently used CNS depressants because L-tryptophan is chosen on the basis of the chemistry of normal sleep rather than on a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.366Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages371–378The author compared the neurotoxic effects of disulfiram with those of carbon disulfide, a disulfiram metabolite. The results suggest that carbon disulfide is responsible for the behavioral and neurological side effects of disulfiram. If this is so, then ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.371Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages379–384The authors describe a course in substance abuse given to sophomore medical students with the intention of positively influencing their attitudes toward substance-abusing patients and their treatment. Clinical problem solving and small group discussion ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.379Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages385–390Using the SCL-90, a self-administered symptom inventory, the authors evaluated 48 sexually asymptomatic male and female partners (invested partners) of sexually dysfunctional men and women. They found that the male invested partners showed significantly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.385Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages391–395The authors interviewed 28 dual-career families with young children and found that the wives and mothers in particular experience difficulties in respect to the proliferation of role demands in both home and job situations. The greatest strain was in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.391Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages396–400The authors describe their four-year experience with a therapy group for patients with metastatic carcinoma. Patients in the group are helped by helping one another, by moving out of a morbid self- absorption, and by finding that they have much of value ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.396Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages401–406Behavioral principles offer an operational model for the services of a community mental health center. A demonstration and clinical research project adapted behavior analysis and therapy to the problems, patients, staff, and setting a typical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.401Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages407–411The authors describe the efforts made to meet the mental health needs of Vietnamese children and their families in a large refugee camp. Many of the children received strong emotional support from the multigenerational Vietnamese families, and they ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.407Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages411–417Whether boarding schools undermine the mental health of Eskimo and Indian children has been a bitterly debated issue. The authors examined the effects of four representative boarding schools on 132 Alaskan Eskimo adolescents during their freshman and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.411Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages418–419The authors studied 100 mentally retarded children referred to a psychiatric clinic and found that 39 were hyperactive. However, there was no significant relationship between hyperactivity and mental retardation (with or without psychosis) or brain ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.418Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages420–424The author discusses ethical problems specific to practice with adolescents, a patient group which has special requirements in terms of their relations with authority figures and the kind and degree of external control they need. The psychiatrist who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.420Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages424–426The authors studied the frequency of chromosome variants in 48 hospitalized children with psychiatric diagnoses (study group) in comparison with 10 hospitalized children with nonpsychiatric diagnoses (control group) and the results of three surveys of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.424Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages427–429The author, who considers postpsychotic depression as a reaction to psychosis, illustrates some of the dynamics involved in the development and persistence of the state with letters from a patient. Among other dynamic and psychotherapeutic considerations, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.427Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages429–431The authors describe four cases in which men developed emotional illnesses related to their wives' pregnancies. In all of the cases, the patients had experienced sibling rivalry at a significant time in their lives. This factor seemed to be more important ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.429Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages432–434The author discusses psychiatry's historical estrangement from general medicine, beginning with its isolation in mental hospitals, aggravated by a deterioration in medical school teaching of clinical psychiatry and by limited psychiatric training programs,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.432Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages435–436The authors surveyed 124 attorneys by mail questionnaires regarding their use of and attitudes toward psychiatric referrals. They found that, compared with a similar survey in 1965, fewer attorneys made referrals, but those who did made more. As in 1965, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.435Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages436–438Historically, genital exhibitionism has usually been regarded as an exclusively male phenomenon. The authors present a case study of a female exhibitionist which is at variance with that contention. They offer a formulation of the psychodymanics of female ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.436Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages439–440The authors present three case studies which suggest that smoking withdrawal symptoms in certain individuals may be due to removal of nicotine per se, implying that smokers may develop a true physical dependence on cigarettes. Nicotine replacement by use ...
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Pages463-b–464There were two errors in the Conclusions of "γ-Aminobutyric Acid (Gaba) and the Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia" by Daniel P. van Kammen (Feburary 1977 issue, p. 142). In the first paragraph of that section, the third sentence should have read as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.463-bPublication date: 01 April 1977
Page464On page 223 of the February 1977 issue the first reference in the book review by William T. McKinney, M.D., should cite the Journal of Psychiatric Research rather than the Journal of Psychiatric Residency. The staff regrets these errors.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.4.464Publication date: 01 April 1977
Pages464-a–464On page 230 of the February 1977 issue Leslie H. Schwartz, M.D., Voorhees, N.J., should have been listed among those who successfully completed the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology examination given in Chicago, Ill., Oct. 18-19, 1976. The staff ...
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