American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 135
- Number 12
- December 1978
Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1465–1475The author presents an overview of genetic counseling for psychiatric patients and their families, including a brief summary of contemporary research into the evidence of genetic factors, the familial risks, and the possible modes of inheritance for major ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1465Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1476–1480As part of the work of the APA Task Force on Psychosurgery, the author surveyed 1,901 neurosurgeons on how many psychosurgical procedures they performed in 1971, 1972 and 1973. A total of 1.481 questionnaires were returned: 195 neurosurgeons indicated ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1476Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1481–1486Schneider's diagnostic system of first-rank symptoms (FRS) is acknowledged by psychiatrists throughout the world as a decisive basis for the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Recently, the author's and others' works have challenged this view. This report ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1481Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1487–1491Data on 84 nonretarded boys aged 6--12 with the hyperkinetic/MBD syndrome were drawn from a comprehensive, longitudinal investigation in the interest of identifying factors that contribute significantly to variation in clinically rated improvement during ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1487Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1492–1495In this two-year study, patients referred for group therapy were extensively screened and carefully prepared for the therapy. In spite of this effort there was a 29% dorpout rate after group therapy began. All of the therapists reported that they disliked ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1492Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1496–1499The author describes the therapeutic problems that can arise on a family-oriented psychiatric inpatient service. The stress emerging from the therapeutic demands on and changes in the internal structure of the family may cause the family to seek to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1496Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1500–1504The authors present the proposed DSM-III classification of the traditional hysterical disorders, i.e., disorders that suggest physical illness but in which psychological factors are judged to be of importance. The use of the DSM-III inclusion and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1500Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1505–1508The authors used a questionnaire sent to the directors of the 256 approved American psychiatric residency programs to examine the availability, content, and orientations of group therapy training. They found that 78% of the responding programs offered ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1505Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1509–1512The authors present the results of a one-year study showing equivalent mastery of basic psychiatric knowledge and skills and equally favorable student reactions after psychiatry clerkships on a consultation-liaison service and on other more traditional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1509Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1513–1516The author discusses the lack of organized faculty attempts to facilitate psychiatric residents' transition to professional practice. Interviewed residents suggested that faculty discontinue their "benign neglect" of the transition and provide information ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1513Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1516–1519The authors used a questionnaire survey to study the way psychiatric residents experience their psychotherapy supervisors at two points in their training. Results show that second-year residents were more critical in their evaluations of supervisors than ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1516Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1520–1524The author summarizes recommendations on how specific training for working black and other minority patients can be integrated into the existing relatively traditional residency programs. He also discusses psychotherapeutic issues and problems encountered ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1520Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1525–1529The Asian and Asian-American physician in a standard psychiatric residency is faced with discrimination at several levels, as well as special problems of professional role confusion and personal identity, all of which can create barriers to professional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1525Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1531–1535The author critiques the recently proposed activation-synthesis hypothesis about the origin and formation of dreams. Many findings do not support the new hypothesis that specific pontine physiological processes, rather than mental processes, instigate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1531Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1536–1538The author examines Hobson and McCarley's activation-synthesis hypothesis of dreams from the point of view of theory construction and the logic of science. After reviewing pertinent literature, he concludes that modern sciences has not yet established a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1536Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1539–1542Forty-nine schizophrenic outpatients stabilized on oral antipsychotic medication and procyclidine received 12.5 mg or 18.75 mg of fluphenazine enanthate or fluphenazine decanoate and were examined for extrapyramidal side effects one and two weeks later. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1539Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1543–1545The author reports the use of behavior therapy in the treatment of two cases of severe intractable depersonalization. Outcome criteria included full psychiatric assessment, patients' self-ratings, and psychometric test scores. Treatment by flooding was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1543Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1546–1548The authors present a case to illustrate a model of drug-induced psychosis wherein the drug acts as if it fits with some neurobiological predisposition in the patient. Patients with a good interpersonal developmental history but extreme sensitivity to a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1546Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1549–1552The authors followed 29 young adults who had been treated for enuresis with imipramine hydrochloride 10 years earlier. To test beliefs that enuresis is symptomatic of severe psychopathology or of urological conditions, they studied whether the treatment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.12.1549Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages1552–1555Using psychiatric interviews, sexual and affect rating scales, hormonal studies, and neurologic assessment, the authors assessed the effect of L-dopa treatment on men with Parkinson's disease. Patients demonstrated variable affect changes. Approximately ...
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