American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 135
- Number 10
- October 1978
Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1141–1147Third-party payment has profound effects on such areas of psychiatry as confidentiality; diagnosis; the therapeutic relationship; psychiatry's identification with the rest of medicine and the role of nonphysician mental health professionals; psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1141Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1148–1155Dr. Braceland discusses his 13-year tenure (1965-1978) as Editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry, noting that he took office during a period of social turmoil that in many ways resembled the decade of the Journal's founding 134 years ago. He ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1148Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1156–1162To evaluate formulations about more positive outcome in modern-day schizophrenic patients, the authors assessed 132 young patients 2.7 years after hospital discharge. Despite modern treatment techniques, only 14%-17% of the 79 schizophrenic patients in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1156Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1163–1167Using a sample of 116 subjects drawn from a large metropolitan area, the authors compared ratings of psychopathology from both structured and clinical interviews. Although the two types of interviews yielded similar findings when there was definite ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1163Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1168–1173The authors conducted prenatal interviews and behavior observation sessions with 46 families in which the woman was pregnant. These families were again interviewed and observed 7 days, 1 month, 2 months, and 6 months after the child was born. The authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1168Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1174–1178The authors discuss the role of infant observation in the training of child psychiatrists, emphasizing the overriding importance of the subtle but crucial interactions in the mother-infant relationship. Infant observation is valuable in preparing the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1174Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1179–1184This study provides additional evidence that there is a moderate association between the acute activation, euphoria, and antidepressant responses to dextro-amphetamine and the antidepressant response to imipramine during a four-week trial. Comparison of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1179Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1185–1188Insurance companies have traditionally been wary of providing coverage for mental illness for two reasons: 1) they fear that people would bring a mental illness on themselves or would use treatment for self- actualization, and 2) they fear the risk of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1185Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1189–1192The author studied 253 classroom teachers who were referred for psychiatric evaluation because of varying degrees of psychological stress and physical trauma. These teachers had experienced actual assault or the threat of assault in inner-city schools. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1189Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1193–1197The author tested the predictive power of 10 hypotheses about the personality qualities of therapists that match with those of schizophrenic inpatients to affect therapeutic course. The personality matching traits predicted with significant accuracy the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1193Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1198–1201To determine the extent to which involuntary hospitalization is overused, a "No-Commitment Week" was set aside, during which emergency room psychiatrists committed only patients in absolute need of hospitalization. Compared with the week before and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1198Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1202–1205The decision to add a fourth year of training with emphasis on a primary care internship experience has created serious problems for most psychiatric residency training programs. The logistic problems involved in having a department of psychiatry develop ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1202Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1210–1213A total of 7.2% of the patients in a private psychiatric hospital were placed in seclusion during a one-year study. These 63 patients had a more frequent diagnosis of schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness, manic type, than a comparison group. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1210Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1213–1215The use of marijuana as the independent variable produced a serious exacerbation of a psychotic process in four schizophrenic patients whose illness was otherwise well controlled with antipsychotic medication. Each patient served as his own control--the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1213Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1216–1218In certain social circles a variety of volatile nitrites are being used extensively to expand creativity, stimulate music appreciation, promote a sense of abandon in dancing, and intensify sexual experience. Soon after amyl nitrite (the prototype of this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1216Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1218–1220The authors compared the arrest rates of former mental patients with those of criminal offenders released in the same jurisdiction. The data for all ex-patients and all offenders released in Albany County, New York, in 1968 and 1975 support the contention ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1218Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1221–1224Supplemental Security Income (SSI) has given the psychiatrically disabled a dependable source of income and helped make it possible for them to live outside state hospitals. The change to SSI has had an important effect on delabeling and decreasing the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.10.1221Publication date: 01 October 1978
Pages1224–1226Cartesian dualism, the splitting of human existence into mind versus body, is at times reified with unfortunate consequences. The authors report a case in which a social policy formulation based on such diagnostic dualism resulted in the denial of health-...
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Pages1250-b–1250In the August 1978 issue there was an error in "The Prevalence of Schizophrenia: A Reassessment Using Modern Diagnostic Criteria" by Michael Alan Taylor, M.D., and Richard Abrams, M.D. The reference to the study by Weissman and associates (cited as ...
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