American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 135
- Number 5
- May 1978
Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages525–533According to the cognitive view, the individual's negative and distorted thinking is the basic psychological problem in the depressive syndrome. The distorted cognitions are supported by maladaptive cognitive schemata, which involve immature "either-or" ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.525Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages534–538The authors studied the effects of imipramine hydrochloride at plasma concentrations associated with antidepressant activity in seven patients hospitalized for severe depressive illness. They found that the drug usually produced prolongation of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.534Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages539–542The author describes a patient with the diagnosis of multiple personality who was treated by several therapists with different theoretical perspectives, including psychoanalysis and family systems theory. The latter approaches to the patient's illness are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.539Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages543–546In order to assess factors related to men's adjustment to mastectomy and its aftermath the authors administered a questionnaire to 31 men whose wives or partners had had mastectomies. Most men reported a good overall adjustment, but a subgroup remained ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.543Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages547–551Seventy-two psychoanalysts collected information on 84 obese patients and on a control sample of 63 of their patients of normal weight. Despite the fact that obesity was the chief complaint of only 6% of the obese patients, weight losses at 42 months of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.547Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages552–556The authors studied 53 patients hospitalized for depression to evaluate possible associations between pretreatment responses to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and behaviorally rated responses to lithium. Patients were randomly assigned to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.552Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages557–561Plasma and red blood cells (RBCs), amitriptyline, nortriptyline, imipramine, desipramine, doxepin, and desmethyl doxepin levels were measured in depressed inpatients during steady-state kinetics. A strong positive correlation between the drug levels in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.557Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages562–566Five of 8 patients with unipolar or bipolar endogenous depressions taking prolyl-leucyl-glycinamide (MIF-I), 75 mg/day, showed substantial improvement within a few days of beginning treatment compared with similar improvement in only 1 of 10 receiving 750 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.562Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages567–569Platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity and amine metabolites in cerebrospinal fluid were compared in 22 schizophrenic patients, 8 of whom improved during a 30-day drug-free period. CSF 5- hydroxyindoleacetic acid and homovanillic acid did not ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.567Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages570–572Relapse rates of the first 35 unipolar and bipolar II manic-depressive patients who entered the controlled phase of a continuing evaluation of the prophylactic value of lithium alone or in combination with imipramine were analyzed. Lithium had a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.570Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages573–575The authors examined three groups of children for minor physical anomalies: 52 autistic children, 34 nonautistic siblings of these patients, and 29 normal controls. The total number of anomalies and the weighted score were significantly higher in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.573Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages576–578In controlled experiments rhesus monkeys that had received phenylethylamine (PEA) demonstrated behavior similar to that reported after the administration of amphetamines, except that tolerance to PEA did not develop. These findings are of psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.576Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages579–582Fifty-nine physically abused children demonstrated a significantly higher incidence of self-destructive behavior than two control groups of nonabused children, one neglected and one normal. The self- destructive behavior, including suicide attempts and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.579Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages582–584A random sample of 309 employees of a state mental hospital completed form E of the Depression Adjective Check List (DACL), the Beck Depression Inventory, the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale, and the Crowne-Marlowe Social Desirability Scale. Two ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.582Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages585–587In a double-blind placebo-controlled study, both pimozide and haloperidol significantly decreased tic frequency in nine patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome. These findings are consistent with the catecholamine hypothesis of tic generation. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.585Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages588–591The author discusses the new discipline of sociobiology. He develops the hypothesis that relief of neurotic distress may be associated with experiencing social affiliation and presents data that demonstrate a decline in neurotic symptom intensity in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.588Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages592–593Although caregivers in many disciplines have provided home visits as part of their services, psychiatrists have rarely made house calls. The author discusses some of the practical and emotional issues that have traditionally caused both patient and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.592Publication date: 01 May 1978
Pages594–596The authors suggest that day hospitalization can provide a useful therapeutic framework for patients with borderline personality organization without creating the ego regression often seen in such patients during 24-hour hospitalization. The lack of room ...
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Publication date: 01 May 1978
Page643This statement was approved by the Board of Trustees at its December 10, 1977, meeting, upon recommendation of the Council on National Affairs. It was prepared by the Task Force to Study Arbitrary Discrimination Against Persons with Previous Psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.5.643Publication date: 01 May 1978
Page644This statement was approved by the Assembly of District Branches at its October 1977 meeting and by the Board of Trustees at its December 10, 1977, meeting, upon recommendation of the Council on Medical Education and Career Development. It was prepared by ...
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