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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 135
  • Number 2
  • February 1978

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages157–163

The author points out that psychiatric ethics are coming under increasing critical scrutiny by psychiatrists and by those outside of the profession. On the basis of an examination of APA Ethics Committee records, he concludes that criticism of psychiatry'...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.157

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Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages164–173

Inhibition of central dopamine functions appears to be a common basic property of antipsychotic drugs. The mesolimbic and nigrostriatal portions of the dopaminergic system are probably the main targets for the mental and the extrapyramidal actions, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.164

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages165–173

Inhibition of central dopamine functions appears to be a common basic property of antipsychotic drugs. The mesolimbic and nigrostriatal portions of the dopaminergic system are probably the main targets for the mental and the extrapyramidal actions, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.165

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages174–177

The author notes that psychiatrists alone can change the public image of their profession. This image has been tarnished in the past by grandiose claims of psychiatry's ability to right social wrongs, by the perceived lack of scientific underpinnings of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.174

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages178–184

In a national collaborative study to assess the neuropsychological status of 151 polydrug users, the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery showed deficits in 37% two to three weeks after they entered treatment and in 34% at three-month follow-up. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.178

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages185–190

The authors provided psychiatric consultation to medical personnel in charge of a Vietnamese refugee camp in California. Although the emergency measures that supplied clothing, food, shelter, and medical care to nearly 60,000 refugees were immensely ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.185

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages191–197

The authors conducted a study of nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT) in 35 diabetic men, aged 33 to 70, who complained of impotence and in 35 age-matched control subjects. EEGs and other measurements showed that the diabetic men as a group exhibited ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.191

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages198–201

The author suggests that research on the prediction of violent behavior does not support the unqualified conclusion that the accurate predictions of violence is impossible under all circumstances or that psychiatrists, psychologists, and others will ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.198

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages202–205

The authors studied 62 emergency room patients with violent ideation or action to assess the feasibility of predicting assaultive behavior. Although the likelihood of future violent acts could not be predicted accurately, they discovered that a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.202

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages205–209

The authors sent out questionnaires regarding knowledge of statutes governing emergency involuntary hospitalization to psychiatrists in Connecticut and in the District of Columbia. Fifty-five percent (N=207) of the sample in Connecticut and 25% (N=87) of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.205

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages209–213

In a sample of 89 patients referred from a psychiatric service emergency room, the author investigated variables related to completion and noncompletion of the physician's recommendation. The completers (58%) tended to be older and more educated, to be ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.209

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages213–216

Of 167 patients appearing in the psychiatric emergency room of a metropolitan hospital, 68 were categorized as significantly depressed by the Zung depression scale but only 43 were considered depressed by clinician-interviewers. The use of a patient self-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.213

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages217–219

The authors studied 21 schizophrenic and borderline college students who achieved B+ or higher grade averages and underwent psychotherapy while in college. High academic achievement was found to provide relief from feelings of worthlessness and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.217

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages220–222

Habitual smokers smoked either nicotine-free cigarettes or cigarettes containing a known amount of nicotine and then engaged in a free-recall task. Nicotine subjects recalled significantly fewer words on a 75-item list during three successive trials of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.220

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages223–226

The author found abnormalities of ocular movement including abnormal blink rate and blink reflex to glabellar tap in 34 of 44 medication- free schizophrenic patients. It is not clear whether these signs represent part of the pathology of schizophrenia or ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.223

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages226–229

Although emotional blunting has always been considered a core symptom of schizophrenia, it has been excluded from recently developed sets of diagnostic criteria because of its alleged unreliability. The authors describe a brief rating scale for emotional ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.226

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages229–231

The author describes two borderline inpatients with assaultive behavior that was not controllable by medication. These patients use splitting to separate all-good and all-bad part representations, which hinders tolerance of ambivalence and control of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.229

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Article

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages258-a–258

There was an error in the obituary of David M. Levy, M.D., in the August 1977 issue. The first sentence of the second paragraph on page 934 should read as follows: He was director of the Institute of Juvenile Research (the first of the modern child ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.258-a

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages258-b–258

There was an error in the title of table 1 in "Psychiatric Disturbances Associated with Erhard Seminars Training: II. Additional Cases and Theoretical Considerations" by Michael A. Kirsch, M.D., and Leonard L. Glass, M.D., which appeared in the November ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.258-b

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages258-c–258

The December 1977 issue contained an error in "Patient Responsibility and the AMA Discharge: A One-Year Follow-Up Study" by David J. Withersty. The last sentence of the third paragraph on page 1443 should read as follows: Thirty patients had been ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.2.258-c

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