American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 136
- Number 12
- December 1979
Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1507–1517ECT is an effective but also controversial treatment modality in psychiatry. The decision of when to use ECT is predicated on a knowledgeable assessment of anticipated benefits and possible risks as they apply to each individual case. Refinements in ECT ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1507Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1518–1524The authors studied 8 sets of healthy twins, ranging in physical maturity from prepubertal to late pubertal, and their parents to assess psychological changes in early adolescence. Interview and questionnaire data suggested that self-doubt, avoidance of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1518Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1525–1529Psychiatric education is currently facing many critical issues. Their resolution will determine the future availability of psychiatrists and is dependent on the development of new strategies that will require a reorientation in several aspects of current ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1525Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1530–1534The author reviews prospective studies of bereavement, which show that widows and widowers suffer from significant depressive symptoms in the first year. Young widows and widowers may have more physical distress and take more drugs. There are few changes ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1530Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1535–1539The authors studied the families of 12 patients with bipolar manic- depressive illness. They measured family stability using a life events scale for a 2-year period before lithium treatment and for 2 years during lithium treatment. The patients responded ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1535Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1540–1544Although the phrase "joint custody" is in popular use, the concept lacks standard definitin; parents who express interest in this form of disposition have widely differing objectives and expectations. The authors discuss the need for determining the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1540Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1545–1549To determine the relevant psychosexual characteristics of invested partners of patients with sexual disorders, the authors administered the Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory (DSFI) to 51 invested partners and 200 normal volunteers. Female invested ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1545Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1550–1555The authors determined serum prolactin levels in 13 patients receiving clozapine, an antipsychotic drug that does not produce extrapyramidal side effects. Morning serum prolactin levels, 11 hours after the last dose, were not elevated during chronic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1550Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1556–1561Community treatment of formerly hospitalized patients is in need of evaluation. The authors evaluated an aftercare program by examining its effect on the amount of time spent in the community by patients discharged from a state mental hospital. They ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1556Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1561–1571The authors observed that many psychotic patients on a clinical/research ward incorporated various aspects of research organization into their own evolving intrapsychic structures. This process had either beneficial or deleterious clinical effects, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1561Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1562–1566The relationship between ethnic density (the relative size of a given ethnic group in a multi-ethnic neighborhood) and risk for psychiatric hospitalization was explored for black, white, and Puerto Rican residents of New York City's 338 health areas. The ...
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Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1567–1571The authors observed that many psychotic patients on a clinical/research ward incorporated various aspects of research organization into their own evolving intrapsychic structures. This process had either beneficial or deleterious clinical effects, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1567Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1572–1575The author discussed the development of modern psychiatric care in Nigeria. There are two primary conceptual orientations among mental health workers in the country--the "non-culture bound" and the "culture- bound" approaches to mental health care. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1572Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1578–1580To better monitor the psychotherapy training of psychiatric residents and to understand therapist factors involved in a negative outcome to psychotherapy, the authors surveyed 20 supervisors on the frequency of mistakes made by resident therapists. Among ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1578Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1581–1584The authors investigated the possibility that choline chloride might reduce schizophrenic symptoms by increasing central cholinergic activity. In a single blind crossover study, up to 20 g/day of choline chloride had no significant effect on clinical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1581Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1584–1586Violence associated with chronic phencyclidine (PCP) abuse was investigated by administering a structured interview to 16 chronic PCP abusers. A more intensive study was done of another individual who committed murder and self-mutilation under the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.12.1584Publication date: 01 December 1979
Pages1587–1589A number of researchers have suggested that the pregnant psychiatrist has many intrapsychic conflicts, as a result of the pregnancy, which influence her interactions with colleagues. In contrast, the authors suggest that colleagues' reactions to the ...
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Pages1620-a–1620In "CSF Copper in Schizophrenia" by Stephen P. Tyrer, M.B., H. Trevor Delves, Ph.D., and Malcolm P.I. Weller, B.M., in the July 1979 issue, tyrosine-hydroxylase was erroneously cited as a copper-dependent enzyme.
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