Borderline patients were compared with schizophrenic patients, neurotic depressed patients, and a group of patients with differing diagnoses. The purpose of this comparison was to find out whether borderline patients could be discriminated from other ...

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Personality and the prediction of long-term outcome of depression

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages797–800

In a follow-up study of 150 women who had undergone treatment on an outpatient basis for acute depression, it was found that the most important predictor of their long-term clinical outcome (8, 20, and 48 months after the acute episode) was personality as ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.797

Side effects in the neonate from psychotropic agents excreted through breast-feeding

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages801–805

Neuroleptics, antidepressants, lithium, anxiolytics, and hypnotics may be excreted in breast milk. Because of the danger to the neonate, drugs such as diazepam, lithium, bromides, reserpine, and opium alkaloids should not be given to lactating women, and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.801

Imipramine response in deluded depressive patients

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages806–811

The authors examined how delusions and other psychotic features influenced treatment outcome with imipramine in patients with primary depression. Global improvement scores indicated that delusions or other evidence of psychosis do not contraindicate ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.806

Parent assessment in research on the vulnerability of children and families to mental disorder

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages812–815

The research methodology for a current study of the assessment of family factors as they relate to the development of psychopathology in high-risk children is described. Factor analysis of preliminary data from 83 families led to the construction of 6 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.812

Explaining the increased arrest rate among mental patients: the changing clientele of state hospitals

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages816–820

The arrest rates of nearly 2,000 psychiatric patients released from psychiatric centers in 1968 and those of nearly 2,000 patients released in 1975 were compared with the arrest rates of a group of 5,000 patients studied 25 years earlier. In general, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.816

Animal-human correlates of narcotic dependence: a brief review

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages821–825

Knowledge of opiate action in laboratory animals can be of great value in developing a rational clinical approach to the treatment of narcotic dependence. Physiological alterations experimentally produced by narcotics have been confirmed in human subjects,...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.821

Causes for the premature interruption of psychotherapy by private practice patients

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages826–830

Thirty patients who discontinued private psychotherapy prematurely were evaluated. Factors stemming from the dynamic interaction between the patient and the treatment process were the most common reasons for dropping out, followed by chronic character ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.826

Sudden infant death syndrome: impact on families and a direction for change

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages831–834

Until recently, there were no standardized approaches to the diagnosis of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), the leading cause of death in the age group of one week to one year in the United States. This has led to confusion among professionals and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.831

Father-son incest: underreported psychiatric problem?

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages835–838

Six families are described in which 10 sons were involved incestuously with a natural father (N=4) or step-father (N=2). Father-son incest as a part of the spectrum of child abuse appears to be a more frequent clinical entity than was thought previously.

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.835

Effect of haloperidol and apomorphine treatment on dopamine receptors in pituitary and striatum

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages839–841

Prompted by an interest in the similarity of brain and tuberoinfundibular systems, the authors studied butaclamol-specific neuroleptic and apomorphine binding in pituitary and striatum after chronic haloperidol and acute apomorphine treatment. Striatal ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.839

Psychiatric and neurologic sequelae of infectious mononucleosis

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages842–844

Infectious mononucleosis is usually thought to be a benign disease with occasional neurologic sequelae. Depression, incoordination, a reduction in intellectual ability, and altered EEG patterns were found in two patients; one recovered and the other ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.842

A national survey of resident assessment methods

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages845–847

The authors distributed a questionnaire regarding the assessment of psychiatric residents to 130 directors of residency training programs. Formal examinations were required by 37% of the programs and were being considered by an additional 49%, suggesting ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.845

The children's psychiatric hospital unit in the community: I. Concept and development

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages848–851

The authors describe a children's mental health unit (CMHU) in a general hospital and cite the need for short- and intermediate-term children's psychiatric facilities within the community. They point out the special need for psychiatric inpatient units ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.848

Extrapyramidal side effects with lithium treatment

Publication date: 01 July 1978

Pages851–853

The authors neurologically examined 38 patients who had received lithium carbonate for from 3 months to 5 years to determine the presence of extrapyramidal side effects. No patient had received neuroleptics for 3 months before examination. Definite ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.7.851