American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 134
- Number 6
- June 1977
Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages613–620There are many striking temporal and cultural parallels in the development of commercial films and psychiatry. The psychiatrist has been depicted in widely varying ways--as madman, as a powerful force for tinkering with the soul, and as a wonder worker ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.613Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages621–625Forty alcoholics without other significant medical or psychiatric problems were studied on a research ward for two weeks. All subjects abstained from alcohol and cigarettes during the first week; 30 randomly selected subjects were permitted unlimited ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.621Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages626–630The authors found several common themes in intensive interviews with 20 prominent psychiatric administrators. The decision to go into administrative work resulted from strong interest in public service, frustration in other roles, and/or situational ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.626Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages631–636The authors report results of rediagnoses of 128 cases from two decades (1932-1941 and 1947-1956) by clinicians using the Research Diagnostic Criteria as guidelines and compare these results to rediagnoses by clinicians in a previous study using more ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.631Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages637–641The authors present some of the criticisms that have been leveled against the federal peer review system of approving or disapproving monetary grants. They then summarize the process used by the National Institute of Mental Health's Psychiatry Education ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.637Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages642–645Psychiatry today faces sociopolitical, economic, and philosophical pressures that threaten its existence as a valued medical specialty. Recent legislation that decreases the numbers of foreign medical graduates eligible to practice in the United States, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.642Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages646–651The authors examine the major factors involved in recent changes in the social standards and attitudes related to homosexuality. The principal influences investigated include the misconstrued emphasis given to the humanist ideology, which properly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.646Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages652–656Pharmacokinetic research has shown that clear differences exist among benzodiazepines in rate and route of elimination and in the presence or absence of pharmacologically active metabolites. These findings and other results of pharmacokinetic research ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.652Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages656–658The benzodiazepines are widely prescribed by many physicians for patients with depression, anxiety reaction, circulatory disorders, digestive disorders, tension headache, and pain in chest and back. According to various studies there is reason to believe ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.656Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages659–662Conventional clinical trials using parallel groups are relatively insensitive to the effects of psychotropic drugs, especially antianxiety agents. Experimental paradigms based on the single organism research strategy offer an alternative. A free operant ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.659Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages662–665The sedative, muscle relaxant, antianxiety, and anticonvulsant effects of benzodiazepines may involve several distinct mechanisms because dissociation among these actions can be demonstrated with various drugs. Neurotransmitters displaying prominent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.662Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages665–669The therapeutic effects of benzodiazepines in psychoneurosis may depend in part on their ability to release or disinhibit a patient's anxiety- suppressed gratification-seeking behavior. Benzodiazepines may disinhibit behavior by reducing the activity of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.665Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages669–672Current experimental paradigms emphasize neurotransmitter-specific interactions to explain the behavioral effects of benzodiazepines. According to this approach the broad range of effects observed suggests the involvement of several transmitter systems ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.669Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages673–676Although dysmorphophobia, a subjective feeling of ugliness in a person of normal appearance, constitutes a distinctive symptom cluster occasionally seen in patients requesting cosmetic surgery, it is not included in current major psychiatric diagnostic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.673Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages676–679The authors examined newborn anomaly scores for 193 normal infants in relation to obstetrical history, newborn dopamine-beta-hydroxylase (DBH), and 5-month (N=185) and 1-year (N=123) infant behavior, determined by a questionnaire completed by their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.676Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages679–681The authors assessed the relationship between depersonalization (defined by self-estrangement and body image diffusion) and temporal disintegration (impaired goal-directedness and temporal indistinction) in 37 acutely ill hospitalized psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.6.679Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages682–683The authors recorded diagnoses and total number of sick days for 148 men before and after treatment for alcoholism in a Navy alcoholic rehabilitation center. Over a 4-year period (2 years before and 2 years after treatment), there was a reduction of sick ...
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Publication date: 01 June 1977
Pages704-c–704The 11th line of the précis in Ernest Hartmann's article "L-Tryptophan: A Rational Hypnotic with Clinical Potential" (134:366-370, 1977), should read, "L-tryptophan, unlike other hypnotics...." Lines 8-11 in the second column of p. 369 should read, "...
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Publication date: 01 June 1977
Page720This statement was approved by the Assembly of District Branches at its May 7-9, 1976, meeting, and by the Board of Trustees at its February 19, 1977, meeting, upon recommendation of the Council on Research and Development. It was prepared by the Task ...
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