American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 136
- Number 1
- January 1979
Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages1–11The author assesses the current status of psychotherapy with medically ill patients. He reviews the special problems of psychological treatment for this population; the respective rationales for the utilization of various psychotherapeutic approaches ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.1Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages12–17Discussion of primary prevention has been made difficult by lack of clarity of underlying concepts and assumptions. Is the purpose to prevent diagnosable mental illness or to prevent unhappiness and social incompetence? What are the implications of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.12Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages18–23The authors report on the relationship between the antianxiety effects of chronically administered chlordiazepoxide (CDX) and plasma levels of CDX and two of its metabolites, desmethylchlordiazepoxide (DMCDX) and demoxepam (DMX). Fifteen subjects with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.18Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages24–27The community mental health center (CMHC) movement, largely conceived by psychiatrists to improve standards of mental health care nationally, appears to be going through an evolutionary phase in which there is decreasing utilization of psychiatrists and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.24Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages28–32The authors, who visited the People's Republic of China in October 1977, describe the treatment methods used there, particularly in the Shanghai Mental Hospital, a 1,000-bed hospital for acutely ill patients. Psychiatric treatment there appears to be a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.28Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages33–37The author uses the concept of affiliative-affectionate bonding and the concept of differentiative-aggressive bonding to answer questions regarding the human tendency to stereotype. He states that the human processes of affiliation, introjection, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.33Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages38–43A document written by Albert Einstein has recently come to light in which the eminent scientist described the actual sequence of his thoughts leading to the development of the general theory of relativity. The key creative thought was an instance of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.38Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages44–48The author recalls 1978's anniversaries of events and individuals prominent in the history of medicine, psychiatry, and psychology and examines their practical and theoretical contributions.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.44Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages52–56In a pilot study of 150 manic or depressive patients, the authors used the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) and the Schedule for Affective Disorders and schizophrenia (SADS) to perform preliminary analysis of symptom pictures of the index episode of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.52Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages57–61Neurotic depression, the most commonly used psychiatric diagnosis, has multiple meanings that are often used interchangeably in clinical practice. The authors identify six different meanings of neurotic depression and present data from a study of 90 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.57Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages62–66The authors evaluate the clinical and research significance of the diagnosis of secondary depression by comparing 48 cases of primary and 26 cases of secondary depression. The patients with secondary depression have a higher familial prevalence of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.62Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages67–70To determine the personality characteristics associated with affective disorders the authors administered a battery of self-report personality inventories to a sample of hospitalized affective patients when their manifest symptoms had abated. Patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.67Article
Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages79–82The authors found a 31% incidence of tardive dyskinesia among 261 schizophrenic outpatients treated with neuroleptics. Multiple linear logistic regression analysis revealed a higher incidence of tardive dyskinesia among elderly patients, those with longer ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.79Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages83–85The authors replicated Spiegel's single-treatment method by treating 40 self-referred patients in a one-hour hypnosis session for smoking. Their results, a 6-month total abstinence rate of about 25%, were comparable with Spiegel's experience. They ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.aj136183Article
Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages83–85The authors replicated Spiegel's single-treatment method by treating 40 self-referred patients in a one-hour hypnosis session for smoking. Their results, a 6-month total abstinence rate of about 25%, were comparable with Spiegel's experience. They ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.83Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages85–87Black-white differences in MMPI norms may lead to significant misclassification of black psychiatric patients, which can compound diagnostic errors from other sources. The authors suggest that clinicians who use MMPI results in evaluations of black ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.85Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages88–90The author describes 4 patients in whom radically new symptoms appeared after intensive behavior therapy. He suggests that fresh symptoms are most likely to develop in a small minority of patients who are unable to learn more adaptive psychological ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.88Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages91–92The authors found that more than one-third of emergency room patients were participating in concurrent psychiatric treatment. Exploration of the relationship between patient and therapist proved to be a valuable tool in formulating consultation and in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.91Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages93–96The author describes the effect that severe budget cuts accompanied by guidelines stipulating that direct services be given priority over primary preventive services had on a community mental health center in New York City. He focuses his discussion on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.93Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages97–99Although semantic clarity is a cornerstone of scientific psychiatry, psychiatrists often use technical words with the false assumption that their meanings are clear. The common use of the terms "mood" and "affect" illustrates this point. The authors ...
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Pages126-b–126In the August 1978 issue there was an error in figure 2 of "Impact of Neuroleptic Chemotherapies on Schizophrenic Psychoses" by Pierre Deniker, M.D. The corrected figure appears below. [See figure in the PDF file] The staff regrets these errors.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.126-bPublication date: 01 January 1979
Pages126-c–126There was also an error in table 3 of the "1977 Annual Report of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc." in the Official Actions section of the October 1978 issue. In the last column, headed "Foreign Graduates," the second number in the % ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.126-cPublication date: 01 January 1979
Pages126-d–126In the November 1978 issue there was an error in "A Look at Psychiatric Decision Making" by Bruce Roberts, M.D. The first sentence of the second paragraph of the second column on page 1385 should read, "Assuming that we are dealing with the manifestation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.126-dPublication date: 01 January 1979
Pages126-e–126Also in the November 1978 issue there was error in "Prediction of Self-Mutilation in Hospitalized Schizophrenics" by David Shore, M.D., Douglas J. Anderson, M.D., and Neal R. Cutler, M.D. The second paragraph of the Discussion section should read, "...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.1.126-eArticle
Publication date: 01 January 1979
Pages138–144This document was approved by the Board of Trustees at its September 1977 meeting and by the Assembly Executive Committee at its February 1978 meeting. It was prepared by the Task Force on Confidentiality of Children's and Adolescents' Clinical Records1 ...
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